coronavirus lockdown

Zero students were proficient in math, according to state math exams, at 13 Baltimore city high schools in Maryland.

Lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions” that had a “negligible” impact on loss of life, a study has found.

The tide of protests and other acts of dissent — including posting banners, distributing petitions, or individual protest posts that grew tremendously in China throughout 2022 — has yet to ebb, the Freedom House China Dissent Monitor revealed in its latest update this week.

Harvard University has hired former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as its first Knight Tech Governance Leadership Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. The lockdown queen’s fellowship is set to begin this fall.

Crime among juveniles soared nationwide following the school shutdowns during the pandemic in 2020, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing data from law enforcement agencies.

Authoritarian socialist Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday she would step down from the prime ministership of New Zealand next month — a position she acquired in a controversial election and used to make the country crueler, less safe, and less free.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper reported on Thursday that the southern metropolis of Guangzhou was planning on expanding its repressive coronavirus quarantine camps by tens of thousands of beds, presumably to force more citizens into the facilities and out of their homes.

The Chinese coronavirus pandemic is, for all intents and purposes, over in Venezuela, but the regime maintains some of the coronavirus-related restrictions it imposed in March 2020.

Brazil’s Federal Police requested authorization from the nation’s Federal Supreme Court this week to formally indict President Jair Bolsonaro with a Chinese coronavirus-related crime, accusing Bolsonaro of having disseminated false information about coronavirus vaccines and for discouraging the use of masks.

An expert with China’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) speculated during a press briefing on Thursday that the Communist Party may soon limit Chinese coronavirus quarantine periods and potentially loosen other lockdown restrictions, a statement at odds with the country’s top official in charge of pandemic response.

The number of South Korean families that moved from “urban areas to farming villages” reached an “all-time high” last year, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday, noting that the phenomenon came in response to prolonged pandemic restrictions and surging home prices nationwide.

The World Health Organization admitted that the very lockdown policies it advocated for have resulted in a rise of mental health issues.

A British court ruled that the government’s move to discharge hospital patients into care homes without testing them for covid was illegal.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday published a fulminating editorial denying widespread reports of serious problems with China’s spring planting season, including shortages of fertilizer and farmers prevented from tending to their fields by coronavirus lockdowns.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper admitted in a report on Monday that strict lockdown measures imposed since the Chinese coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan in 2020 have failed, driving cities “on a quest for an improved anti-epidemic approach.”

Norway says it is lifting almost all remaining COVID restrictions as it doesn’t see a major health threat to citizens any more.

There’s an arms race to capture the “metaverse,” the posited futuristic world of interconnected virtual realities. Microsoft and Facebook are locked in an increasingly expensive battle for control of what they believe to be the future. But where did this hype come from?

A Conservative MP has proposed a ‘Freedom Bill’ which calls for refunds for people who received fines for minor coronavirus lockdown breaches.