Reading Time: 4 minutes From the Spanish flu to TB to whooping cough to polio, we have hunkered down. Our protective instincts made sense then and do now
Tag: Covid-19
Use science, not speculation, to save seniors and businesses
Reading Time: 4 minutes Locking down society, and business, makes no sense in the battle against COVID-19. It’s time to take a more measured approach
Exiting the lockdown with care and intelligence
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recognizing the devastating consequences of allowing the COVID-19 lockdown to go on indefinitely, Austria is gingerly moving forward
COVID-19 panic lacks scientific justification
Reading Time: 4 minutes The international lockdown is pointless and unnecessarily painful. Is this really a pandemic or just another round of the flu?
They don’t build borders like they used to
Reading Time: 3 minutes The modern border is porous, malleable and surmountable. It’s not an effective deterrent for undesirable political, social, medical or economic consequences
The miraculous recovery of Boris Johnson
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Easter Sunday, appropriately enough, the British PM spoke of his harrowing experience battling COVID-19
Serving fearful customers a big challenge for grocers
Reading Time: 3 minutes While grocers have coped well with the need to serve a more fearful consumer, the post-COVID-19 era will be challenging
How to satisfy sports fans’ burning desire for games
Reading Time: 3 minutes Playing before empty stadiums, moving teams to centralized locations with revised schedules, virtual drafts – everything is on the table
First Nations particularly vulnerable to COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes All levels of governments need to work together to develop a detailed strategy for dealing with COVID-19 among Indigenous communities
Canada learns from Europe on COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes Continuous cash aid to citizens, mortgage relief and closed borders are signs the government is acting responsibly