Archive | April 29, 2020

US Marriage Rates Drop To Lowest Since The Civil War

Marriage rates dropped very low during the Civil War because the country lost 2% of her population amid a very destructive conflict. However, in modern times, the Wall Street Journal reports by way of the Daily Caller that marriage rates are at the lowest they have been since the conflict. The U.S. marriage rate has […]

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COVID-19 Displaces Billions Of Workers, Threatens Livelihoods Of Half The Planet

As COVID-19 has gone around the world, forcing the shutdown of economies and threatening livelihoods, ThompsonReuters reports it has had another effect, which is the dispossessing of almost half of the world’s work force, mostly in poor nations. ome 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are […]

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Across The Country, Americans Are Lining Up At Food Banks

In a scene that could look like it was taken from the 1930s, the UK Daily Mail reports that Americans are lining up at food banks from Los Angeles to Philadelphia. Hundreds of Americans lined up to access much-needed food handouts in Los Angeles and Prospect, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Masses of cars waited in line […]

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New York Orthodox Jews Cry “Anti-Semitism” For Being Threatened With Arrest For Refusing To Obey The Same Social Distancing Rules That Apply To Everybody Else

New York City is ground zero for the COVID-19 spread. It is disproportionately spreading among the Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish communities because they are refusing to obey CDC social distancing guidelines that people of all religious, racial, and cultural backgrounds have been asked to obey for the sake of public safety. Many people, including many […]

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Tennessee “Re-Opens”, Has Massive Spike In COVID-19 Cases

Tennessee and Georgia have both “re-opened,” but COVID-19 is still spreading. It is of interesting note as NPR has reported that following this, Tennessee has reported a massive spike in COVID-19 cases. Restaurants across Tennessee are able to welcome dine-in customers Monday for the first time in nearly a month as the state eases restrictions […]

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There Are Officially More COVID-19 Deaths Than Those From The Vietnam War

I noted that if patterns continued, it would be a matter of days before the number of deaths from COVID-19 surpassed the total number of casualaties from the Vietnam War. Now according to NPR, this exact situation has come to pass. In not even three months since the first known U.S. deaths from COVID-19, more […]

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