Floundering CDC director Rochelle Walensky – a kind of hapless Robin facing Fauci’s Riddler – once said, “I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom.” Now the winds have suddenly if belatedly shifted in favour of recognizing relative risk – such as that those dying of Covid-19 tend to have four comorbidities. James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal examines.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


