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Without answers scientists theorize that social control like lockdowns is suddenly and simultaneously dramatically reducing cases at last.

Coronavirus cases are falling globally, but the big question is: why?

For the sixth consecutive week infections have plummeted worldwide. Our Global Health team looks at what might explain the fall in cases

A pandemic of loneliness.

Pandemic Loneliness Is Hitting Young Adults Especially Hard

New research shows rampant loneliness among Americans, with young adults and mothers among the most vulnerable. Here are ways to help.

The Woke sit in moral judgment of dissident. But who appointed them to the PC supreme court?

Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status

Amnesty strips him of the status but links it to an “orchestrated campaign” to discredit him.

The only thing that appears capable of defeating the coronavirus epidemic in the end was the development of vaccines. Not just one but several vaccines employing different technologies appear to be effective.

UK data: COVID-19 vaccines sharply cut hospitalizations

LONDON (AP) — Two U.K. studies released Monday showed that COVID-19 vaccination programs are contributing to a sharp drop in hospitalizations, boosting hopes that the shots will work as well in…

“More people died from suicide in Japan in October than the total number of COVID-19 deaths up to that point in 2020.”

Japan has appointed a ‘Minister of Loneliness’ after seeing suicide rates in the country increase for the first time in 11 years

During the pandemic, with people more socially isolated than ever, Japan saw a rise in suicides for the first time in 11 years in 2020.

New at the Belmont Club

The fighter direction officers of World War 2.

Home is where the heat is. War, holy or otherwise, gets old real quick.

Pressuring France to Bring Them Home, Women Who Joined ISIS Stage Hunger Strike

Frenchwomen who joined the Islamic State and are now held in squalid detention camps in Syria have gone on a hunger strike to protest France’s refusal to bring them back.

Countries meet to form alliance following social media strike on Australia.

Canada to follow Australia and take on Facebook, seeking payment for content

Canada is poised to take on Facebook, following the example set by Australia, which began a war with the tech giant when the country’s publishers backed proposed legislation demanding payment…

The 5 year planners discover that once you make something completely free it becomes unaffordable.

Venezuelan Women Lose Access to Contraception, and Control of Their Lives

Affordable birth control has disappeared, pushing many women into unplanned pregnancies at a time when they can barely feed the children they already have.

Poland mulls fines for ideological censorship writes Roger Simon. Will the Big Guy follow suit?

It starts with stopping porn but how long till you get alerts for searching on “lab origins of Covid” or “fraud in 2020 elections”?

Searching porn on Google in UP? Govt will now monitor and send messages to internet users

The UP Police on Saturday said that a new team called the ‘UP Women Powerline 1090’ has been set up to monitor people’s internet activities.

(AP) – Legislative testimony made Wednesday in support of a GOP-backed effort to limit public health orders made by Ohio’s governor was removed from YouTube after the service deemed it contained COVID-19 misinformation.

YouTube Removes Ohio Legislative Testimony, Citing Misinformation – Business Journal Daily | The Youngstown Publishing Company

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Report for America/Associated PressCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Legislative testimony made Wednesday in support of a GOP-backed effort […]

Money and power rears its reptilian head in the Internet walled gardens.

New at the Belmont Club.

Facebook vs Australia

The serpent enters Facebook’s walled garden

The world is getting an illuminating glimpse into the power wielded by Facebook, Amazon and social media which can blank out Australia, remake the retail landscape of India. They’ve watched in breathless wonder as tens of thousands of nursing home deaths were covered up by the official news. Some have stood awestruck as the Western medical bureaucracy shut down whole economies and entire continents.