Volume 76, no. 9 September 2020 Chinese Communist ruler Xi Jinping told the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) that the new coronavirus is a “devil” and that China is confident of winning the battle against it (tinyurl.com/y4dhwxkq). Also, “the epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide” (tinyurl.com/yxbplwnx). Weapons against […]
Volume 76, no. 8 August 2020 It is certain that the COVID-19 pandemic will end, just as all previous, mostly worse pandemics did (https://tinyurl.com/r4xhshy). A disease from which more than 99.5% recover cannot wipe out the human species. The SARS-CoV-2 virus may vanish, like SARS-CoV-1. Or there may be recurrent waves, as with the 1918 […]
Volume 76, no. 7 July 2020 The current front in the war against science and medicine, and hence against doctors and patients, is the war to suppress available, affordable, safe preventives and treatments for COVID-19, as patients continue to die and economic carnage continues. Ironically, “anti-science” is the accusation hurled at any who question the […]
Volume 76, no. 6 June 2020 While more than 100,000 American deaths have been attributed to COVID-19, 150 million doses of hydroxychloroquine, donated by manufacturers, are deteriorating in government warehouses. There is an aggressive campaign to portray HCQ at first as “unproven” and now as also “unsafe.” Following the lead of the Food and Drug […]
Volume 76, no. 5 May 2020 Until now, an essential tool has been missing from the toolbox of total control by a ruling class: quarantine and curfews, stated progressive journalist Harry Vox in a videotaped interview on Oct 21, 2014 (tinyurl.com/y7gpfq3y). This was at the time of the Ebola epidemic, which faded before an effective […]
Volume 76, no. 4 April 2020 Never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste Alinskyites may have found the ideal opportunity. The COVID-19 pandemic/panic is destroying the free-enterprise economy, getting people to accept draconian restrictions on liberty, and making people increasingly dependent on government. Fear combined with guilt is a potent weapon. Some people are going to die suddenly or after a […]
Volume 76, no. 3 March 2020 At the time of this writing, the outcome of the novel coronavirus pandemic is unknown, but certain lessons are apparent. One of the main advantages we have now compared to the time of the 1918 influenza pandemic—the capacity for rapid worldwide “viral” communication—is being hampered by government and its […]
The internet is supposed to provide open access to information to people of different opinions, and algorithms for search engines such as Google were originally designed to rank entries on the basis of traffic to a site. It was democratic in the sense that people voted with their mouse clicks. Freedom of communication is a […]
Those who believe that by “investing” a little tax money in government programs, we will reap equitable “healthcare,” affordable housing, and college education for all, plus social justice—and that the programs will “pay for themselves” in a few years—need to re-read The Adventures of Pinocchio. The silly marionette, on the advice of a fox and […]
Volume 75, no. 12 December 2019 Most have probably heard the definition of insanity often attributed to Albert Einstein: “Doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.” But we still do it. This admonition does not seem to apply to socialism, despite repeated experience from the Soviet Union to Venezuela. […]