DANA POINT, Calif.—As a gentle wind blew across the Dana Point Headlands, hikers out for a quick stroll along the coastal trail enjoyed sunny skies as access reopened to normal operating hours following a restricted pandemic schedule. “This visibility is okay, but I’m sure it will get better as the winds move the smog out…
Court Orders Dana Point Headlands to Reopen to Pre-COVID Hours
School ‘Calming Rooms’ Aim to Help Students Cope with Stress
Some school districts grappling with how to help students better manage stress are adding “calming rooms,” where children can stretch, do arts and crafts, listen to soothing music, and more. The trend is a response to multiple studies showing an uptick in anxiety and depression among teens and young adults, apparently triggered by pandemic lockdowns,…
Did Post-COVID Election Innovations Stall the Predicted Red Wave?
Experts from the right and left predicted overwhelming Republican victories at the polls. Instead, the GOP lost the Senate and looks to hold a slim majority in the House. Is it all because of mail-in voting and other procedures implemented with the pandemic two years ago? Is it an indication that America is truly split,…
Eating Disorders Skyrocket During Pandemic: Study
Eating disorders have jumped during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers looked at the numbers of inpatient admissions and outpatient visits for eating disorders such as bulimia and binge eating disorder before the pandemic started at 14 hospital-based sites that are part of the National Eating Disorder Quality Improvement Collaborative, and one…
Should US Officials and Pharma Execs Be Charged With Crimes Against Humanity?
The U.S. elites who pushed COVID-19 regulations want forgiveness for the punishment they inflicted on middle-class Americans. Schools closed. Children hurt. Businesses destroyed. Families and communities split. And worse—patients were denied early treatment to force experimental vaccines on the entire country. And now Americans want to bring those responsible to justice. In this eye-opening new…
‘Massive Harms’ From Lockdowns Should Not Be Forgiven: Dr. Scott Atlas
Restrictive pandemic policies shouldn’t be forgiven after the “massive harms and destruction” the lockdowns caused to the American public, according to Dr. Scott Atlas. Atlas, a COVID-19 adviser under the Trump administration and contributor to The Epoch Times, was responding to a recent Atlantic article calling for a “pandemic amnesty.” The argument goes that the…
‘Massive Harms’ From Lockdowns Shouldn’t Be Forgiven: Dr. Scott Atlas
Restrictive pandemic policies shouldn’t be forgiven after the “massive harms and destruction” the lockdowns caused to the American public, according to Dr. Scott Atlas. Atlas, a COVID-19 adviser during the Trump administration and a contributor to The Epoch Times, was responding to a recent Atlantic article calling for a “pandemic amnesty.” The argument goes that…
Trudeau Government Used Pandemic to Engineer Long-Term Spending Increase
Commentary In response to the pandemic, governments in Canada launched an unprecedented wave of spending. In Ottawa, the federal government has sought to make that wave permanent. In 2020/21, federal spending increased by 73 percent to $644.2 billion before declining 21 percent to an estimated $508 billion in 2021/22. Total provincial government spending rose 9.2…
Costs Surge as Transit Ridership Remains Below Prepandemic Levels
Transit agencies across the United States were still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. That’s according to a report released by the Federal Transit Administration that found ridership plummeted and transit agencies used federal COVID-19 funds to pay their bills. “Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, ridership decreased 24.7 percent from 2020 and…
Of Course Emily Oster Wants Amnesty
Commentary Emily Oster has a lot of nerve. The Brown University professor has just published an article, called “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty”, in which she argues “we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.” The trouble with her suggestion is that, despite…
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