As Beijing’s COVID-19 cases increase, more and more neighborhoods are placed under strict lockdowns. But students at some university campuses in China’s capital city are protesting against the harsh measures, demanding administrators to allow them to return home. Since April 22, the number of infection cases from the omicron variant has increased from six to…
John Robson: On Power Outages and Politicians’ Complacent Mindset That Nothing Serious Can Go Wrong
Commentary Decades ago, I backpacked to exotic places where things were very different. For instance the electricity might work intermittently, and accountability not at all. But now that globalization has created a far more homogeneous world, culturally and technologically, um, they don’t work here either. Last winter I complained on Twitter, so I deserved whatever…
Sweden’s Strategy Once Again Proven Correct
Commentary Throughout the pandemic, Sweden has faced an enormous amount of criticism and international pressure due to their willingness to stick to established public health principles and pre-pandemic planning. Instead of following the incessant, anti-science groupthink that became part of a virus-induced political religion, Sweden chose instead to not impose the strict lockdowns that Dr….
US Companies Damaged by China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy
May 23, 2022
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Commentary Beijing’s ongoing “zero-COVID” campaign is slowing both the Chinese and global economies, causing supply chain disruptions felt around the world. The harsh pandemic measures are also damaging U.S. companies in China. “Conditions in China are such that we have virtually no ability to predict our performance in China in the back half of the…
Peter Stockland: It’s Urban Mental Illness That Needs Media Attention, Not a Few Cases of Monkeypox
Commentary Having grasped the COVID pandemic’s lucrative lessons in making money from fear, mainstream media is now pushing a tale of fright featuring a bug called monkeypox. Before the long weekend, one news network reported a staggering three cases of the mysterious malady in Quebec, bringing the national total to a knee-buckling five. Another tabloid-headlined…
Pandemic Lessons Learned: Deer Are Not Military Horses
May 23, 2022
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Commentary Earlier this month, The Lancet published an article titled “Shanghai’s life-saving efforts against the current omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic” by three renowned scientists at Shanghai’s top universities: Wenhong Zhang, Xinxin Zhang, and Saijuan Chen. The article praised the Chinese Communist Party’s draconian lockdown policy in Shanghai as “life-saving.” Not long before that,…
Lockdowns, Closures, and the Loss of Moral Clarity
Commentary Last weekend, an 18-year-old kid slogged a powerful weapon into a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and started shooting people based on race. Thirteen people were slaughtered. His goal was to start a race war, along the lines of the fiction books that inspired his online gurus. He live-streamed the carnage and left a…
China Lockdown Protests Grow
Commentary Protests are spreading in China due to extreme COVID-19 lockdowns, employer and bank failures, rationing of food and sanitation, and Xi Jinping’s attempt at an unprecedented third term as leader. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims that foreigners instigate the protests, which are censored. Rebellious netizens then repost them, including to the blockchain, making…
China’s Lockdowns Are Destroying Its Economy
May 19, 2022
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Commentary Not one vehicle was sold in Shanghai in April, according to the Shanghai Automobile Sales Association on May 16. This is a direct result of lockdowns in which citizens no longer need their cars—and can’t afford them anyway. According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, factory output and consumer spending tumbled last month, while the…
Can We Now See that Economics Does Not Diverge From Public Health?
Commentary The dramatic shortage of baby formula underscores the point: a functioning economy is essential to public health. It’s the same with inflation and food shortages: if you cannot afford to eat or the shelves at the grocery are empty, that results in a diminution of public health. If products essential to life—parts to fix trucks or…
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