By Terence P. Jeffrey | December 16, 2020 | 4:41am EST
A vendor cleans her stall at a market in Wuhan, China, the area where COVID-19 originated, on May 21, 2020. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
Something that began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 continues, a year later, to have a monstrous impact on the way Americans live their lives.
We are less free today because a Chinese virus came our way and because of the way some politicians have reacted to it.
Start with the science: COVID-19 originated in China. As COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan, China, it became an epidemic, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because the disease then spread across several countries and affected a large number of people, it was classified as a pandemic.
Close to close prices hide what was a very noisy day in the markets with bonds, the dollar, and the broadest stock index flat-ish until some last minute malarkey. Headline hockey between The Fed flop - not delivering the QE Twist that so many had hoped for (but promising more will come) - and the constant optimistic headlines from Washington over COVID Relief. As a side note, no one seemed to care that US retail sales were a major miss, homebuilder optimism rolled over, and gasoline demand continues to collapse in the US.
Just be careful what s under the surface.
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By Susan Jones | December 14, 2020 | 9:36am EST
A waiter carries a tray of food through a canyon of tent restaurants in New York City on December 12, 2020. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - As snowy weather threatens, New York City restaurants must close to indoor dining, starting today and that may be just the beginning of a more extensive shutdown, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN on Monday morning:
He called the escalation in COVID cases and hospitalizations a huge and complex challenge that may require fuller restrictions: You re talking about the potential, and again, I m quoting from Governor Cuomo, and I think he s right there s a potential of having to do a full pause, a full shutdown in the coming weeks, de Blasio said.