Most posts on public health and Covid have been taken offline, made private
Today I saw a social media post from a professional health care provider upset over a SCOTUS decision this past week. This HCP said care would be withheld from individuals…
Prices paid to health care providers by insurers about to become public information
Everyone will know everyone else’s business: for example, how much insurers Aetna and Humana pay the same surgery center for a knee replacement. The requirements stem from the Affordable Care…
Short product life: why I switched from Mac to Windows-based PCs
Over the years I owned an original Mac notebook (1999 time frame), a dual processor G4 desktop, and later 2 Macbooks (first one was stolen), and then a MacPro 1,1…
This is America – Happy Independence Day
This, below, is America, not the constant drumbeat of horrible, terrible scary news trumpeted by the media as they seek to divide us and tear us down rather than build…
Cryptocurrencies lose huge values in June 2022
Bitcoin just finished its worst month on record, losing more than 38% of its value in June, as of Thursday afternoon. Ether, the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, ended the same period…
Many cryptocurrencies have crashed
DAPS Coin, this morning from Coinbase. Cryptocurrency and block chain makes sense to me, for many applications, including security and privacy. But the weakness of digital currency is that anyone…
Follow up: Monkeypox projection made May 24, 2022
Pseudo projection for Monkeypox cases, made May 24, 2022: June 28, 2022: Monkeypox case count rises to more than 3,400 globally, WHO says | Reuters (as of June 27, 2022)…