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More and more apartment compounds in Beijing on Friday forbade residents from leaving for at least a few days. "You constantly hear of someone going into lockdown and you have this constant feeling that you're going to be next," Joerg Wuttke, president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, said Friday. It was not clear how many people were affected at a city level, and to what degree stay-in-place measures were being enforced. This morning most of our 30+ staff reported their communities went into a 7-day lockdown," James Zimmerman, partner in the Beijing office of Perkins Coie, said...

Deakin University associate professor in epidemiology Hassan Vally is warning about a COVID-19 “variant soup” consisting of five new strains leading the latest wave in Australia. “We never get too confident when we talk about the virus,” Vally told AAP. “Every time we think we’ve got a handle on it, there’s always a surprise around the corner.” Australia officially reported 75,590 cases of COVID-19 COVID-19 last week, an average of 10,800 per day and a 38 percent surge in cases. Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly announced earlier in the month that all evidence suggests that a new COVID-19 wave has...

As students in Philadelphia make their way back to school, not only will they need to bring the usual school supplies such as books, pencils and notebooks, but they’ll also need to bring along their masks, as well. According to 6ABC, face coverings will now be required in the School District of Philadelphia for the first 10 days of the school year and it’s all because of a precautionary tactic that’ll combat against group gatherings over the break. During a news conference detailing plans earlier this month, it turns out district officials said the precaution is due to summer gatherings....

There is a certain level of madness required to reach the state our country is in today. I think most of us feel this and know this but I want to dissect the situation a little so that we can see the guts of the thing and understand the mechanics of it. Insanity has a structure, believe it or not, and there are ways to analyze it and identify it. For example, there are many forms of madness that stem from an obsession with power and control. In my previous article ‘Is There A Way To Prevent Psychopaths From Getting...