Dive..

CNN’s ratings took a Nosedive by a massive 90 percent both overall and in the all-important demographic coveted by advertisers in the first week of the new year.

The Jeff Zucker-led cable news network averaged just 548,000 viewers during the week of Jan. 3, a major drop from the nearly 2.7 million viewers for the same week in 2021, according to Nielsen ratings. 

The year-ago ratings were jolted by the left-leaning network’s coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, which resulted in CNN having its most-watched day since Ted Turner launched the news outlet in 1980.

But on the one-year anniversary of the attacks, viewers flipped over to CNN’s right-wing rival, Fox News, which topped the ratings for coverage of the event.

Just a "Nosedive" thought.

The Brink .

 

The UK may be on the brink of beating the Covid-19 pandemic.

Covid-19 would "almost certainly" get weaker every year as people develop natural immunity and eventually become a common cold that kills only the very vulnerable further down the line.

Currently, about 130 people are dying from the Covid every day in England at what is believed to be the peak of the Omicron outbreak, compared to 1,300 last January before vaccines were widely available, the report said.

While infection rates more than quadrupled since September following the emergence of the ultra-transmissible variant, daily deaths have barely changed during the same period.

On the other hand, government estimates show there were more than 400 influenza deaths per day at the peak of the last bad flu season in 2017/18.

mandates..

 

Not only the CDC giving instructions, but the politicians also gave variety of instruction all of which added to the confusion and discomfort.

The message of "Get vaccinated to protect ... others"

Who..

 

Crowded buses, Crowded Classroom, crowded homes, crowded transportation system and crowded street.

Boosters..

 

Promised..

 

Path..

 

Shaky..

The CDC agency’s director has said, repeatedly, that schools without mask mandates have triple the risk of COVID outbreaks. That claim is based on very shaky science.

The Arizona study at the center of the CDC’s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. “You can’t learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study,” Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, said. 

His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research. 

But the data being touted by the CDC—which showed a dramatic more-than-tripling of risk for unmasked students—ought to be excluded from this debate.

 
 Noah Haber, an interdisciplinary scientist and a co-author of a systematic review of COVID-19 mitigation policies, called the research “so unreliable that it probably should not have been entered into the public discourse.”

Lockdown..

 

Boris Johnson has apologized for attending an event in the back garden of 10 Downing Street on May 20, 2020, at which point Britons were prohibited from gathering due to strict coronavirus restrictions.

At the start of the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions, Johnson said he did attend the gathering for 25 minutes before going inside to work. He said he believed the gathering to be a work event, but with hindsight conceded he should have sent attendees back inside.

Leader of the opposition Keir Starmer said the UK Prime Minister's excuse that he "did not realize he was at a party" was "ridiculous" and "offensive."

This happened while the UK was in a hard lockdown to combat the spread of Covid-19. At the time, people in England were banned from meeting with more than one other person outdoors, and would be legally punished for doing so. 

In workplaces, official guidance stated that in-person meetings should only take place if "absolutely necessary."

Help..

 

Helping a fellow human being, while it can be inconvenient, has a few humble advantages: 

It makes you feel better about yourself; It connects you with another person, at least for a moment, if not for life; It improves the life of another, at least a little; 

It makes the world a better place, one little step at a time;