A third brand of COVID-19 vaccines will soon become available for adults in Australia, with one million doses expecting to arrive for distribution next month, the government announced on Monday. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a press release that the country’s vaccine regulator, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has approved the Moderna shot and that 25…
UK Scientist ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ Further Lockdowns Will Not Be Required
A return to life as normal could fuel an autumn wave of coronavirus cases but further lockdowns may not be required, a UK government scientific adviser has said. Professor John Edmunds, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), said he was “cautiously optimistic” that another lockdown would not be needed to bring…
How Lockdowns Benefited Beijing and Why Its Push for the Measure Needs Scrutiny
News Analysis From the World Health Organization’s early China-friendly messaging on the virus outbreak to influential papers dismissing the theory that the virus originated in a laboratory, Beijing’s sway over scientific discussions has come under increasing scrutiny during the pandemic. Some observers are also pointing out the communist regime’s footprint in the push for one…
CDC Reports 51 Percent Increase in Suicide Attempts Among Teen Girls
Beth Palmer was 17 and dreaming of becoming a singer in March 2020 when the United Kingdom went into lockdown because of COVID-19. One month later, she was dead. “She was a wonderful, wonderful daughter. She was just funny, she lit up the room,” said Mike Palmer, Beth’s father. “She was so affectionate and loving…
Brian Gibson: Pastor Who Resisted Church Shutdowns Now Faces Death Threats
Cancel culture often results in personal attacks against people and their families. The legacy news media has been pushing these attacks with stories that often misrepresent information in order to frame people negatively. After resisting church lockdowns, Pastor Brian Gibson of Peaceably Gather has been targeted by both news outlets and by angry mobs—including with…
Stop the Lies: Lockdowns Did Not and Do Not Protect the Vulnerable
Commentary Lockdowns didn’t protect the vulnerable, but rather harmed them and shifted the morbidity and mortality burden to the underprivileged. We locked down the healthy in society, which is nonsensical, while at the same time failing to properly protect the actual group that lockdowns were proposed to protect: the vulnerable and elderly. Any epidemic or…
How to Improve Health and Quality of Life for Long-Term Care Residents
June 16, 2021
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Sitting around is a known risk factor for disease and disability. Yet, when older adults start to lose independence—becoming less functional physically or showing signs of cognitive impairment—they move into residences that may allow them to sit for 85 percent of their waking hours. As the baby boomer population ages, older people are starting to…
Mindless Dogma and Groupthink: The Panic Approach to COVID Has to End
Commentary The developments of late regarding COVID cases and vaccination rates as the country begins to reopen have been very encouraging and should buttress people’s optimism after the long and gruelling year the pandemic has put us through. A rather depressing feature of the pandemic, however, has been that whenever a moment arrives that could…
Female Teen Suicide Attempts Increased Sharply During Pandemic Lockdowns
Teenagers hospitalized for suspected suicide attempts saw a spike during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021. A new CDC study found that between Feb. 21 and March 20, female adolescents between ages 12 through 17 have been visiting the emergency department (ED) at a rate of nearly 51 percent higher than the same time frame…
Time to Close the COVID Chapter
Commentary The worldwide COVID-19 measures have been a catastrophe. It’s time to close the COVID chapter and call our leaders to account for their spectacular errors in these times. Democracy and its human rights and freedoms have been tossed aside as an irrelevant nuisance. Rights to move about freely and preserve our livelihoods are stripped…
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