coronavirus Archives - Furney Times

January 10, 2021 Commentage

Frau Spiegl Needs Some Help

By William J. Furney I wasn’t so much invited into her apartment as ushered in without much of a choice, or a mask. “Kein problem,” she said, but it could

January 3, 2021 Commentary

China’s Dark Zhang Zhan Corona Moment

By William J. Furney What has China done with a citizen journalist reporting on the early days of the coronavirus pandemic from the epicentre in Wuhan? Praised her efforts at

December 27, 2020 Commentary

2020: A Year of Humility

By William J. Furney If there’s one thing many of us have learned this year, it’s a big lesson in humility. For all our freedoms and liberties, and desires to

December 13, 2020 Commentary

‘People of the Year’ Are Healthcare and Key Workers and Coronavirus Vaccine Developers (Not Politicians Yet to Take Office)

By William J. Furney If you’re giving out awards to “people of the year”, in this of all years, it probably shouldn’t take you long to realise who is most

November 29, 2020 Commentage

Waiting to Exhale (without a Mask)

By William J. Furney Families are having to pay many hundreds of euros for negative coronavirus tests to get into places like Spain, placing an additional burden on them in

November 8, 2020 Reportage / Travel

Travel in a Time of Coronavirus

By William J. Furney Garda (Irish police) checkpoints, traffic jammed and snaking back further than the eye can see, everything except places of business selling “essential services” shuttered for over

October 18, 2020 Commentary

Are We On Track for Coronavirus Success?

By William J. Furney Donald Trump, approaching his 80s, gets coronavirus and is out in public and attending an election rally days later. The queen of Britain, getting on to

September 27, 2020 Commentary

At Virtual UN General Assembly, a Call for Coronavirus Reason

By William J. Furney World leaders were not jetting to New York this week for the annual spectacle that is the United Nations General Assembly, but instead, thanks to coronavirus,

August 23, 2020 Commentary

WHO’s Ridiculed Chief Says Coronavirus Will Be Around for Two Years but Few Are (Rightly) Listening

By William J. Furney The man who destroyed the World Health Organisation, as though it was struck down by a lethal virus, doesn’t know when to stop. Tedros is at

August 16, 2020 Commentary

Hysteria and Panic in Europe Over a Coronavirus That’s Bubbling Up But Killing Almost No One

By William J. Furney Cases of coronavirus are breaking out all over Europe, but hospital emergency rooms are not overflowing and hardly anyone is now dying from the pathogen that