Max Munson teaching the Wim Hof Method

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Also posted on the Prague Monitor here. The past two years have been difficult for many of us. The lockdowns, isolation, endless debates and ever-changing rules all contributed to feelings of being overwhelmed and losing control of our lives. Reality itself seemed uncertain. People handled this in various ways, not all of them healthy (yes, my alcohol consumption increased noticeably). Most of us know that escapism is not the way to go; facing your fears and worries head-on is the only way to overcome them. But that’s a difficult step to take, or at least it was for me. I managed to do it, though it left me wondering what else I could do to take back control of myRead more.

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Dominik Duka, cardinal at the Roman Catholic Church and the 36th Arch Bishop of Prague, believes coronavirus is a biological weapon and that the military knows about it.  In a sermon made earlier in the month but recently dug up by CNN Prima News, Duka talks about COVID-19 testing the faith of an otherwise atheistic country, reigniting people’s awareness of death. He then openly refers to the coronavirus as a “biological weapons leak” that all the world’s militaries know about. “This coronavirus situation reminds Christians of what we fear the most. What are we following the most? The number of deaths… In this situation, the worst is the Chinese virus, a biological weapons leak. All military specialists around the worldRead more.

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The mutated form of COVID-19 was detected in the UK and alarmed citizens of the affected countries. The Czech National Reference Laboratory reported that they found this form of COVID-19 in Czech patients back at the beginning of fall, but there is no reason to panic. The new form of the virus underwent around 23 mutations with the most significant ones happening in the spike protein, where the H69/V70 deletion occurred, according to the report by COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium. It could explain why several Czech patients were re-infected with COVID-19 despite the reports that re-infection is unlikely. Furthermore, it can potentially explain why the virus is spreading quicker. “New variants of coronavirus are appearing independently of each other inRead more.