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Coronavirus: have we already missed the opportunity to build a better world?
Coronavirus: have we already missed the opportunity to build a better world? Many people like to say that the coronavirus is teaching us a lesson, as if the pandemic were a kind of morality play that should lead to a change in our behaviour. It shows us that we can make big shifts quickly if we want […]
The Cultural Preparation for Crisis
The Cultural Preparation for Crisis Coronavirus is a foretaste of the future challenges to come. We have been offered a wake-up call with supermarkets having empty shelves and being forced to change the routine. We will need more resourcefulness, capacity for divergent thinking, and self-initiative in future events related to climate change and economic slowdown. […]
As coronavirus surges in Hong Kong, mysterious pneumonia hits Kazakhstan – is this a new pandemic?
As coronavirus surges in Hong Kong, mysterious pneumonia hits Kazakhstan – is this a new pandemic? (Natural News) Even as one of Asia’s major financial hubs braces for a resurgence of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, a potential new threat looms as a deadly new pneumonia has broken out in the center of the continent. In […]
Avalanche
Avalanche How bad could it get? For the United States, it seems there is no bottom. Back in March, I wrote that the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic would likely shape its economic, political, and geopolitical fortunes for years or decades to come. Four months later, it’s time for a check-in. How’s that pandemic response going? […]
The epidemic in the US: a comment by the virologist Guido Silvestri
The epidemic in the US: a comment by the virologist Guido Silvestri Many have noted the spike in the number of coronavirus cases observed in the United States. The fear is, obviously, that this increase will result in a corresponding spike in the number of deaths after some delay. The virologist Guido Silvestri wrote a comment in […]
How Waste Due to the Coronavirus Is Hurting Our Oceans
How Waste Due to the Coronavirus Is Hurting Our Oceans In an attempt to protect themselves and others from the coronavirus, millions of people are donning plastic masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment. From restaurant staff to medical personnel, workers and the general public are using and discarding thousands of single-use plastic […]
Nature’s antivirals: Top 5 antiviral agents that help boost immune health
Nature’s antivirals: Top 5 antiviral agents that help boost immune health (Natural News) Scientists are scrambling to fast-track a cure for COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease that’s still currently spreading throughout the globe. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been conducting clinical trials for a potential COVID-19 drug since April, but to no […]
Weekly Commentary: Update COVID-19
Weekly Commentary: Update COVID-19 Can we even attempt a reasonable discussion? Someone’s got this wrong. June 12 – Reuters (Judy Hua, Cate Cadell, Winni Zhou and Andrew Galbraith): “A Beijing district put itself on a ‘wartime’ footing and the capital banned tourism and sports events on Saturday after a cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred […]
Lies, Damned Lies and Covid19
Lies, Damned Lies and Covid19 Growing up as I did in the Cold War, I still experience a special kind of shudder whenever I come across an anecdote like that of Katya Soldak, whose Soviet nursery school teacher once showed her class a photograph clipped from a Western newspaper, “depicting skinny [Russian] children in striped robes […]
Americans Have Already Skipped Payments On More Than 100 Million Loans, And Job Losses Continue To Escalate
Americans Have Already Skipped Payments On More Than 100 Million Loans, And Job Losses Continue To Escalate Those that have been hoping for some sort of a “V-shaped recovery” have had their hopes completely dashed. U.S. workers continue to lose jobs at a staggering rate, and economic activity continues to remain at deeply suppressed levels […]
India Reports Record Jump In COVID-19 Deaths As China Struggles With “Textbook Second Wave”: Live Updates
India Reports Record Jump In COVID-19 Deaths As China Struggles With “Textbook Second Wave”: Live Updates Nuclear-armed neighbors China and India may be enmeshed in a deadly border dispute with potentially serious ramifications for the global community, both countries are struggling with an alarming resurgence of COVID-19 cases, according to media reports. Yesterday, Chinese officials […]
Insanity? Markets continue disconnect from economy and society
Insanity? Markets continue disconnect from economy and society It’s hard to ignore the protests on the streets of the world’s cities of late. Those protests are coming from a populace who knows that the system they live under long ago stopped benefiting them. While the focus has been the senseless killing by police of an […]
Will We See A New Covid-19 Spike Soon?
Will We See A New Covid-19 Spike Soon? Chris estimates we’ll know within the next 3-5 weeks State lockdowns lifting across the US. businesses and public spaces opening back up. Mass protests bringing thousands together in close quarters. Will we see a resurgence in covid-19 infections as a result? Unknown at this moment, but we […]
No, The U.S. Economy Will Definitely Not Be Returning To “Normal”. In Fact, Things Will Soon Get Even Worse.
No, The U.S. Economy Will Definitely Not Be Returning To “Normal”. In Fact, Things Will Soon Get Even Worse. 2020 has been quite a year so far. It has been one nightmare after another, and yet the economic optimists continue to insist that economic activity will soon snap back to normal levels somehow. So the […]
