State and local officials enact a slate of social-distancing measures, gathering bans, closure orders and mask mandates in an effort to stem the tide of cases and deaths.
Politicians are using the current situation to build up their own recognition, some to make profits out of it and some doctors stepped into the spotlights and wanted to be politicians.
Then came the Omicron, that proof all very wrong and in a 2 months period 28% of the population tested were infected.
New York City is the stricter of all due to the condense population caused mainly by rezoning and over building towers everywhere in the city.
The public responds with widespread compliance mixed with more than a hint of grumbling, pushback and even outright defiance. As the days turn into weeks turn into months, the strictures become harder to tolerate.
I hope the Admin is simply using inflation as a way of adding urgency to the promotion of competition. That is a possible reading of this important article. I strongly support much of the Admin’s competition agenda.
Inflation has become one of the top economic issues in the U.S., and the Biden administration is acting accordingly with various policy actions.
U.S. consumer prices rose 0.5% in December and 7.0% on a year-over-year basis, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's the fastest rate since 1982.
Two of the biggest drivers of price spikes over 2021 have been in food and energy which is likely the reason the White House has focused on both of those sectors both for inflation as well as antitrust reasons.
Tying the two issues together is not without critics, even among Democrats. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers posted a lengthy Twitter thread taking issue with “[a]ntitrust as an anti-inflation strategy” and has noted that Biden officials “flirt with the idea that it’s greedy meatpackers causing inflation."
But until then, it remains a front-burner issue with a recent AP-NORC poll finding the coronavirus down and inflation up when it comes to voter’s top priorities. And, in bad news for the Biden administration, another poll finds 3 in 5 voters place the blame on the president’s policies. Just a thought.
Condom sales dipped unexpectedly during the pandemic, according to Karex, the world's largest manufacturer.
Sales fell as much as 40 percent over the last two years. That runs contrary to what the industry had been expecting, and most companies had forecast an increase in contraceptive sales due to widespread economic uncertainty.
Demand began to slump at the start of the pandemic, when hotels and motels were forced to close. That removed a valuable form of privacy and also delivered a heavy blow to in-person sex workers.
Government condom distribution programs were also halted because of the pandemic as nonessential health clinics were closed temporarily.
America isn’t just seeing less of Mike Pompeo. We are seeing less of the former secretary of state because there is literally less of him — 90 pounds, to be exact.
The former director of the CIA has faced a lot of challenging situations in his long career, but he hesitates to talk about his weight.
It all started on June 14, 2021, when Pompeo stepped on the scale and saw he was just pounds away from 300 for the first time in his life.
“I started exercising, not every day, but nearly every day, and eating right and the weight just started to come off,” he said.
More people around the world are suffering because their immune systems can no longer tell the difference between healthy cells and invading micro-organisms. Disease defences that once protected them are instead attacking their tissue and organs.
Major international research to fight this trend – including London’s Francis Crick Institute, where two world experts, James Lee and Carola Vinuesa, help pinpoint the precise causes of autoimmune disease, as these conditions are known.
Autoimmune diseases range from type 1 diabetes to rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and multiple sclerosis.
Fast-food diets lack certain important ingredients, such as fibre, and evidence suggests this alteration affects a person’s microbiome the collection of micro-organisms that we have in our gut and which play a key role in controlling various bodily functions,” Vinuesa said.
“These changes in our microbiomes are then triggering autoimmune diseases, of which more than 100 types have now been discovered.”
Both scientists stressed that individual susceptibilities were involved in contracting such illnesses, ailments that also include celiac disease as well as lupus, which triggers inflammation and swelling and can cause damage to various organs, including the heart.
