Next European COVID wave arrives: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/03/12/new-covid-19-coronavirus-wave-in-europe-may-have-already-begun-data-suggests/?sh=d14fb965d325 . The countries cited are Western European countries. However, Poland, now housing 1.5 million Ukrainians and counting, is at great risk. The Poles are housing many of these people in their homes and rotating people through. And Ukraine was experiencing a significant surge just before the invasion. This is the only news I have from Poland: https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/poland-reports-11116-new-coronavirus-cases-on-saturday-127-deaths-28693 . This is not particularly helpful, having just two days of data. But it does establish a baseline we can measure against.
WSJ: The evolution of school masking: https://www.wsj.com/articles/getting-kids-to-wear-masks-in-class-was-tough-removing-them-can-be-just-as-difficult-11647093600 . Only conservatives can make a simple issue so tough. If a kid wants to continue to wear a mask, let them. Respect their rights, something conservatives say but do not understand. And if the teacher featured, Nirvani Virgani, is going to wear a mask, shouldn’t she do it properly (see the photo)?
Deltacron news: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/03/12/new-deltacron-covid-19-coronavirus-variant-is-a-recombinant-of-delta-and-omicron/?sh=184c20b01d73 .
WSJ: White House pushes for stalled COVID funding: https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-warns-of-blow-to-covid-19-fight-as-funding-stalls-11647097200 .
WSJ: Surrogacy in Ukraine: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-is-a-world-leader-in-surrogacy-but-babies-are-now-stranded-in-war-zone-11647081997 . Heartbreak arrives for everyone involved.
CDC revokes US authority to expel immigrant children: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-administration-says-it-will-not-expel-migrant-children-following-court-order/ . The Orange Julius tribe dreamed up this rule, allegedly as a way to stop the spread of COVID within migrant facilities. Its effect, of course, is racist. Now the rule finally goes.
WSJ: Western drugmakers continue supply of drugs to Russia: https://www.wsj.com/articles/western-drugmakers-are-still-providing-medicines-to-russia-11647081002 . Certainly there is a humanitarian need to supply medicines.
WSJ: Commodity-producing countries benefit financially from sanctions against Russia: https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-some-countries-economic-ripples-of-ukraine-war-bring-windfall-11647093600 .
Rethinking America’s place in the world: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-war-ushers-in-new-era-for-us-abroad/ar-AAUYWpu?li=BBnb7Kz . President Biden has reestablished US leadership in the world. Putin has dug himself into a hole from which he is unlikely to escape, even if Ukraine falls. The question now is how the competition between the US and China will play out.
WSJ: The Ukraine Foreign Legion: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-new-foreign-legion-takes-the-fight-to-russian-forces-11647083295 . So, a few comments are in order. The Russians have 900,000 troops total, but only 190,000 in Ukraine. The Ukrainians have 209,000 and growing with local enlistments. The Ukrainians are overmatched in terms of military equipment, but the West is rapidly changing that with the supply chain through Poland.
As to the Foreign Legion, many of these veterans are undoubtedly making a significant contribution. Mr. Zeqiri, however, is at best a pathetic dilettante who wasted everyone’s time with his brief adventure to “play high school football”. Maybe the Journal, by publishing his picture, was intentionally making it more difficult for him to return to New York.
West Point cadets overdose on Florida spring break: https://people.com/crime/west-point-cadets-overdose-fentanyl-during-spring-break-florida/ . No fatalities have occurred, although their recovery is uncertain. An arrest has been made. The drug involved, cocaine, was laced with fentanyl: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/west-point-cadets-spring-breakers-overdosed-florida/story?id=83397622 . These young cadets have obviously screwed up their lives. They are fortunate not to be dead.