Experts declare cloth facial coverings mostly useless
Experts warn it’s time to invest in higher-quality masks with a tight fit in the wake of the Delta variant, especially among the unvaccinated like children and other vulnerable populations.…
National Park Service mandates #MasksForAll, including Vaxxed, outdoors
The mandate pertains to both vaccinated and unvaccinated visitors. Any time you are within six feet of someone else, outdoors, in national Parks, you are now mandated to wear a…
Next up: A push to ban air travel
Air travelers create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that mostly harm other, less well-to-do people. Source: Opinion: Big Tech flies too much. It’s time for these companies to practice…
Lake Wobegon is a real place
NHS public health directs teams to put plans in place to ensure everyone is above average.
I’m so old, I remember months ago …
… when states reported Covid related data on a daily basis. Fortunately, Covid is no longer an emergency so many states now report only Monday through Friday, or even just…
Condemnation of the CDC’s lack of data collection
I have seen numerous doctors express frustration that the CDC does not collect important data, which is often collected in advanced nations of the world. The result is the U.S.…
COVID Charts Quiz: Test your knowledge of how Covid mitigations worked
This is brilliant – well done. Test your knowledge of how government interventions affected the COVID-19 pandemic. Source: COVID Charts Quiz
Random correlations are not science conclusions
About as weak a study as you can find: Link between wildfires and COVID cases established. This poor quality paper is receiving mountains of press coverage purporting to link the…
Parody: “Counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards bound for New Orleans seized by U.S. Customs”
The level of idiocy in the country is amazing. Last spring you could download the PDF file from official government public health web sites and print them yourself. You can…
Snopes shot itself in the head
The fact checking site never fact checked itself – as their co-founder plagiarized dozens of articles and wrote fake content under a pseudonym. A BuzzFeed investigation, along with an internal…