China’s fear of COVID-19 reached new heights when the city of Shanghai put members of a WeChat group into home quarantine for at least seven days amid a recent COVID-19 outbreak. The city of 26 million reported 74 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases from July 3 to July 6 that were related to a karaoke bar…

Quarantining measures are ongoing for many residents of the Chinese city of Wuxi amidst an outbreak of COVID-19. Wuxi, a city of 7.5 million residents and 80 miles northwest of Shanghai, is an important commercial and trade hub of Jiangsu Province. According to official city announcements, this wave of the pandemic outbreak began on June…

Commentary Last weekend, an 18-year-old kid slogged a powerful weapon into a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and started shooting people based on race. Thirteen people were slaughtered. His goal was to start a race war, along the lines of the fiction books that inspired his online gurus. He live-streamed the carnage and left a…

The first case of monkeypox in Australia has been confirmed in the state of Victoria from a man in his 30s who recently returned from the United Kingdom. The Victorian state health department states that monkeypox does not easily spread between people. It can be transmitted from one person to another through lesions, body fluids,…

Commentary Donald Henderson, who died in 2016, was a giant in the field of epidemiology and public health. He was also a man whose prophetic warnings from 2006 we chose to ignore in March of 2020. Dr. Henderson directed a ten-year international effort from 1967–1977 that successfully eradicated smallpox. Following this, he served as Dean…

Quarantine requirements for close contacts and unvaccinated international arrivals in Queensland (QLD) will be dropped from 6 p.m. on April 28, bringing the Australian state into line with New South Wales and Victoria. Making the announcement on Friday, acting premier Steven Miles said the close contact isolation restrictions have been impacting businesses, schools, and the…

Back when the COVID pandemic was young and no one knew what to think about it, I sat in my home office listening to a SoundCloud stream of various choral recordings while I worked. One of the selections was a soothing new setting of an old Irish blessing, which runs as follows: May you see…

Commentary Regardless of the results of the war in Ukraine, one outcome that is already unfolding is the rising isolationism in both Russia and China. Both find themselves increasingly isolated from much of the world–particularly with the West–to levels we haven’t seen in decades. Why is that? What does it mean for the near future?…

HONG KONG—Hong Kong resident Yeung waited for 13 hours outside a hospital in the city’s eastern district in cold, rainy weather with his 3-year-old daughter, who had a high fever, before they could be admitted for COVID-19 treatment. By the time they could enter, her fever had gone down and she didn’t require medical attention….

It’s incredible how the jungle preserved the purity and innocence of his soul.