Escaped From New York
We were doing our duty, staying at home, only going out for essential items and keeping informed by scaring ourselves silly watching the cable news 24/7 to keep abreast of what was going on around…
Tag: coronavirus
Make Your Own Face Mask For Yourself Or To Donate To Your Local Hospital
PHOTO: Weirs Times contributor Joyce Endee wears one of her handmade fabric masks. By Joyce EndeeContributing Writer The Center for Disease Control says that fabric masks are a crisis response option for hospitals when other…
World Uniting on Coronavirus Fight?
What would happen if an alien force invaded the world? This was the hypothesis of many sci-fi films over the years in which warring countries and governments would somehow, suddenly, and urgently join together to…
Coronavirus: The Lockdown Limbo
NEW YORK—It’s almost become a sad cliche to say that America is shutting down over the Coronavirus pandemic. Uncertainty and fear stalk the land but the enemy remains invisible. The growing global effects of COVID-19…
Shutdown Brings Great Opportunity to Get Reconnected with Nature
Coronavirus may have robbed us of our schools, normal work routine, hand sanitizer and toilet paper, but it hasn’t taken away our enjoyment of the outdoors yet. Hopefully it won’t even as scientists and officials…
Your Local Eateries Need Your Support
They’ve Always Been There For Us - Now We Need To Be There For Them By Brendan SmithWeirs Times Editor Since the Covid-19 outbreak around the world, life has changed in a way no one…
Isolation Ideas
It is at time of uncertainty for sure. But it is also a time for creativity. As many of us find ourselves staying at home for at least a couple of weeks, it can be…
Horton Hears The News
With Apologies To Dr. Seuss The Word Was Around I Heard People Shout That All The Toilet Paper Would Soon Be Sold Out It Was On The News So It Must Be True Among Everything…
Corona’s March Madness
UNITED NATIONS – Truth is often stranger than fiction. If somebody suggested a thriller novel plot set to the backdrop of gyrating stock markets, falling oil prices, rising tensions with Iran, amidst a spreading worldwide…
Coronavirus; Globalization’s Revenge?
GENEVA – In recent decades China has emerged as the factory to the world; a key player in production networks for automobiles, smartphones, computers, textiles and medical equipment. Indeed as the world’s second largest economy…