Fantastic: Researcher Trevor Bedford receives MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant
Bedford has just been named a MacArthur Fellow and was also awarded a $9 million, 7-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for his work on the pandemic. Source:…
Follow up: “Surge expected after labor day”
Leading up to Labor Day weekend (Sep 4, 5 and 6), the “experts” warned us of a “Surge expected after Labor Day” as people would congregate and not wear cloth…
How the elite travel in a Covid world: Book two trips and cancel one
Sophisticated global travelers now book two trips around the same time – just in case Covid restrictions cancel one of them. Then cancel the one they don’t take. Geesh. Hoping…
“Flight shaming”: Global travel should be banned.
Saving the planet requires that we stop gaping and gawking at travel blogs and vacation selfies. Instead, everyone who cares about the environment should shame those who clamber onto an…
We tried 200 covid-19 vaccines so you don’t have to! | Coldstreams Business and Tech
I wrote this in August of 2020 as a joke – it was satire and parody of news headlines. Sadly, many of these headlines ended up becoming real!: We tried…
Follow up: Fiegl-Ding says UK is killing people
Fiegl-Ding’s claim did not age well. In mid-July, Eric Feigl-Ding, a nutritionist who fashioned himself as an epidemiologist, said the UK’s Covid plans would kill people in this superlative laden…
Fully vaccinated marathon runners mandated to wear masks, outdoors
Fully vaccinated marathon runners mandated to wear face masks – outdoors – for about one-third of a marathon. Because Trust Sciencetm Race Week Health Protocols – The San Francisco Marathon…
Follow up from July 2021: In Australia “Lockdowns work and we have no alternative”
Photo is of Australian government mandatory quarantine facility camp near Darwin: Source: Covid-19: Lockdowns work and we have no alternative How did the lock down do? Sydney began a lock…
Facebook’s algorithms promote posts featuring “outrage” and “sensationalism”, leading to more outrage and divisiveness
Facebook curates your “news feed”. FB promotes posts that have likes, comments or shares, or which are from people you have previously interacted with. The posts from friends with whom…
It’s all mask theater, 24 x 7
At the national 9/11 ceremony on Saturday, the politicians were all milling about, outdoors, no masks, chatting with each other. Minutes later, they posed for the official photo – all…
Duh: “The tiered restrictions enforced in November 2020 did not impact the epidemiology of the second wave of COVID-19 in Italy”
(Original text had no paragraph breaks – I’ve added them to improve readability. TL;DR Summary: Public health mitigation measures did not work. Decreasing metrics were occurring prior to the introduction…
Perspective: More children shot in Chicago so far this year than have died nationwide of Covid-19
The CDC reported that 214 children 17-years old or younger have died of COVID-19 nationwide so far this year — compared to 261 Chicago kids who have been victims of…
People are giving up on public health mandates
The end of sustainable mandates But it appeared that more than three-fourths of fairgoers weren’t wearing masks outdoors, where they recommended by organizers. In the indoor area where stands were…
Dueling Experts: Risks of vaxxed break through cases
The Times report stated the odds of a fully vaccinated person contracting COVID-19 on a given day are 1 in 5,000, citing statistics from King County, WA and other metro…
Kinsa Covid Forecast for a Week From Now
The Delta variant cycle has peaked. This has nothing to do with mitigation measures, many of which were put in place AFTER the decline had already begun. Kinsa health map