Spanish flu

BEST OF OFFG: “Wikipedia Slashes Spanish Flu Death Rate”

Catte Black Republished as part of our ‘Best Of’ series, revisiting some of OffG’s Pre-Covid editorials – either because they help remind us of important realities easily overlooked nowadays, or because they take on added significance in a ‘post-covid’ world. As early as February 2020, when Covid was still just “the coronavirus”, there was sustained …

What Went Wrong

Dr. Omer Qazi, a distinguished endocrinologist currently working at the University Hospitals in Birmingham, England and a member American college of physicians and the American college of clinical endocrinologists, just released a book, What Went Wrong: The Tale of a Bug That Stalled the Globe. His book sets out to highlight the poor decisions around the world that were made in the war against COVID-19 that have proved costly everywhere.

The Many Debts We Owe to Lenin

‘The workers’ and peasants’ government… calls upon all the belligerent peoples and their government to start immediate negotiations for a just, democratic peace. By a just or democratic peace, for which the overwhelming majority of the working class and other working people of all the belligerent countries, exhausted, tormented and racked by the war are … Continue reading The Many Debts We Owe to Lenin →

Life in the Time of COVID-19: Revenge of the Bat

It was dusk. Out of a cave, black clouds of bats were coming out: thick. The fading sun skipped on their velvety wings. It was beautiful. The bats faded into darkness, on their way, on the hunt: tiny knights of nature carrying a deadly weapon about to cure humanity of its follies and arrogance. Their weapon of choice was called COVID-19. A new era had begun. Things would never again be quite the same.

Respect nature or pay the ultimate price