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What Was Certain to Happen in Ukraine, Is Happening

All I can really say at this moment is what’s in the title. It was clear that this was coming after the end of the Olympics, yet somehow many still seemed surprised, disbelieving… The bottom line is that Putin doesn’t stop unless he’s stopped, and the West, NATO, the EU, nobody did anything relevant to […]

National Geographic Romania Is No More…

After the name of the publisher suddenly changed for the February 2021 issue, though it seems that the former publisher’s Romanian business had actually been taken over several months earlier, and following the information about who the owners of the new publisher are and their past exploits, there were reasons for concern for the future […]

Why Not Use COVID-19 to Make Things Even Worse, Eh?

As if it wasn’t bad enough that the former chairman of the UK’s vaccine task force stated that mass vaccinations should end and COVID-19 should be treated more like the flu, now, at the height of the fifth wave, this sort of mindset is starting to spread among European decision makers, including calls for the […]

Still Room for Grim Fourth Wave Records

Even if the number of confirmed cases is dropping significantly, there’s still room for grim records over here, the new one for daily deaths being 586 as of this Tuesday, and that for patients in intensive care becoming 1902 two days later, though of course that’s mainly a question of how many beds are available, […]

Weak Measures and Unheeded Calls for Lockdown at the Height of the Fourth Wave

With Alexandru Rafila now calling for a national lockdown for one month, announced some time in advance, so people and businesses will have time to prepare, I wonder if it can be said that leading politicians are finally echoing the calls which have been coming from the medical field ever since this fourth wave started. […]