Business: “thaw and eat” foods
Does anyone still cook real food, from raw ingredients?
Demographics: “Who Will Care for ‘Kinless’ Seniors?”
This issue is going to become worse due to the large block of young adults who have decided to have no children: A retired librarian, Ms. Ingersoll never married or…
Why it is a good idea to ignore expert predictions
Adjacent headlines on CNBC this morning
Public health believes you are stupid
Actual alert from Los Angeles Public Health. It’s wintertime. And for LA, that brings cooler temperatures, and you need to be told by authorities to wear appropriate clothing:
Arrogance is not a good public relations strategy
I suspect all of us can describe situations when experts were wrong, really wrong – and it was up to us to inform them and correct them to get things…
Public health: CDC out of touch with the real world, finds report
78% of CDC staff work from home/remotely unlike in the real world where people must do in person work. Source: CDC’s remote-work policy may hinder efforts for agencywide reform, experts…
Public Health: Why community use of masks does not work to stop the spread of highly contagious diseases
If you wear a mask, you must wear a mask that actually works, wear it properly and handle and dispose of it properly, and replace frequently. And wear a mask…
Crypto, Finance: Bankman-Fried and most everyone connected to him may have been scammers, say some
But critics say Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapse shows that the movement was always morally compromised — “a con,” as author Anand Giridharadas put it — because it didn’t seem to care…
Public health: Wow
The pandemic of really bad analogies may never end – Even a brain injured idiot like me can figure out why this is nonsense: The primary function of Twitter is…
Public Health: US Sec of HHS says vaccines only good for 2 months of protection?
Secretary Xavier Becerra on Twitter: “An updated COVID vaccine can help protect you from the worst outcomes of COVID. If it’s been over 2 months since your last dose, make…