Irrational and all-encompassing fear of the coronavirus pandemic is racking up its own body count, sometimes faster than the disease. An Italian nurse has joined the growing ranks of coronavirus-triggered suicides. Daniela Trezzi, an intensive care nurse at the San Gerardo Hospital in Italy’s hard-hit Lombardy region who was diagnosed with coronavirus earlier this month, killed herself on Sunday. She was terrified that she had infected […]
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Earlier there were reports of a Maldives luxury resort re-purposing the idyllic island getaway into a coronavirus quarantine centre, as the tourism industry reels from the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. A luxury Swiss hospitality company is offering wealthy clients a customisable “COVID-19 Service” complete with optional add-ons such as doctor visits, 24/7 nurse care and in-room coronavirus testing, reported Bloomberg. The package offer provides […]
President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address on Wednesday night was intended to calm the global markets and allay fears among Americans about the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. But based on the near-universal negative reactions to it — as well as the very public corrections the White House had to issue immediately afterwards — Trump’s effort was little more than a “presidential fail” that ranked among the all-time […]
Two more suspects have been nabbed in the deadly Pulwama terror attack – which killed 40 Indian troops and spiked hostilities between India and Pakistan – including a 19-year-old bomb maker who supplied chemicals from Amazon. The two men – Waiz ul Islam, 19, and Mohd Abbas Rather, 32 – were arrested by India’s counter-terror force, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), on Friday, alleging Islam procured […]
Opinion 04:15 GMT 04.03.2020Get short URL The recent calls for holding a plebiscite on immigration in Norway should be viewed in the context of a fear that the EU may face a repetition of the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, says Norwegian political scientist Jo Jakobsen, who believes a vote is highly unlikely. On Saturday, Norwegian Progress Party’s (FrP) politician Christian Tybring-Gjedde called upon the government to hold […]
Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted without warning early on Tuesday for the second time in a month, sending column of ash 6km (20,000ft) into the sky and blanketing nearby communities with ash and dust. Authorities issued the highest aviation alert, telling pilots to avoid the area, while also establishing a 3km (1.8-mile) exclusion zone established around the volcano, amid the threat of lava and […]
Last night, when the implied 10Y yield (Japan was closed) dropped to just 1 basis point above 1.40%, we said that we are literally this close from BofA’s “tipping point” for the 10Y Treasury, below which a recession is virtually assured according to the NY Fed’s recession probability indicator, and which also triggers a 12-18 month countdown to 0% rates. Well, this morning, with risk assets […]
In a case of pot calling the kettle black, Oliver Darcy fumed at Fox News describing Kaitlin Bennet as a “gun rights activist” after her tumultuous visit to a college campus. Twitter was quick to remind him of CNN’s own sins. InfoWars contributor and Liberty Hangout cofounder Bennett appeared on ‘Fox and Friends First’ to discuss recently getting run out of Ohio University, where swarms of […]
Zachary Leeman is a US-based journalist and author of the novel Nigh. A string of tweets from writer Dana Schwartz slamming the “cultural damage” done by ‘South Park’ have gone viral, and now fans are defending the controversial show, saying it’s exactly what today’s bubble-wrapped culture needs. Don’t count ‘She-Hulk’ writer Dana Schwartz as a ‘South Park’ fan anytime soon. “It seems impossible to overstate the cultural […]
Alibaba Group’s CEO Daniel Zhang warned Thursday that the Covid-19 outbreak in China is developing into a “black swan event” that could have severe consequences for China and the global economy. Zhang told analysts during a conference call that the company’s fiscal third-quarter results beat expectations but warned of near-term impacts related to the deadly virus outbreak. He said Alibaba’s revenue jumped 38% YoY for the […]