What I think of as the cynical left are once again berating the progressive critical left, myself included, for failing to write what they want written about Covid-19. I take this as a kind of unintended compliment: that they think we can write about their concerns better than they can themselves. But even if I…
Evidence indicates that it came from NIH funding of EcoHealth Alliance, an entity doing “gain-of-function” research in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Many experts believe that the virus was created by that research and escaped from the Wuhan lab. Gain-of-function research involves enhancing the pathogenicity and transmissibility of pathogens. Many scientists are opposed…
American democracy would best be served by focusing more on domestically relevant facts than rhetorical attacks against foreign countries like China. The first presidential debate between Trump and Biden saw China presented as the object of their mutual derision, which presented the People’s Republic as a scapegoat for distracting from each other’s controversial stances on…
Here comes the first October surprise. US President Trump and the First Lady have both tested positive for Covid-19 after one his advisors, Hope Hicks, tested positive for Covid-19 and has also started showing symptoms. She travelled on Air Force One with him to Minnesota last week, and was additionally seen maskless near another presidential…
“Red zones”, travel bans, quarantines, “red lists”. A “Second Wave” has been announced. The fear campaign has gone into overdrive. Millions of people are lining up for Covid-19 testing. Drastic state measures are contemplated, including restrictions on social gatherings, marriages, funerals, the closing down of restaurants and bars, the outright paralysis of civil society. Coming to the rescue of our citizens….
German Doctor, Co-founder of ACU – German Extra-Parliamentary Commission for (Covid) Investigation, Arrested – and Swiss Parliament extending the Swiss Covid Emergency Law until End of 2021. *** United Kingdom The scene looks like true fascism out of Hitler’s playbook of the 1930’s. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday 26 September in London’s…
