US EditionWe want to hear your views five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic
- Covid-19 fears increased as 2019 turned into 2020, with the first UK case confirmed in early 2020, particularly from Italy.
- The five-year anniversary of the first lockdown on March 23, 2020, prompts reflections on its impact on daily life.
- Education shifted online, commuting ended, and traditional social interactions changed significantly.
- Many individuals lost loved ones without traditional farewells, marking a tragic element of the pandemic experience.
22 Articles
22 Articles
5 years since first COVID-19 case announced in RI
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — March marks five years since Rhode Island identified its first case of COVID-19. Then-Gov. Gina Raimondo announced the news that changed everyone’s lives across the state. “We discovered what we believe is the first case of coronavirus here in the state of Rhode Island,” Raimondo said on March 1, 2020. The first cases of the virus in the state were traced back to a school trip in mid-February of 2020 organized by St. Ra…
Locking Down American Liberty – Phillip W. Magness
Until the onset of Covid-19, most public health experts explicitly rejected the use of large-scale quarantines, also known as lockdowns, as a viable policy response to a respiratory pandemic. Why then, within just a few weeks of the disease appearing in their countries, did those same officials—in the name of science and expertise—embrace draconian policies that shut down entire societies? The judgment against lockdowns rested on the general fai…
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