52 billion face masks were thrown away in 2020
Good thing this environmental degradation was for a good cause – it stopped Covid dead in its tracks!
Heh – Company CEO favors tax on his competitors
Laughable: The founder of the world’s biggest plant-based meat company has suggested that a tax on meat could help tackle some of the problems from growing meat consumption. Source: Beyond…
Masks for vaccinated people are ‘mostly about protecting the unvaccinated’ says NIH Director
Confusing messaging, again: The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, acknowledged that new COVID-19 restrictions are primarily about protecting unvaccinated Americans as cases of the Delta…
Remember that shortage of software developers?
Low-code platforms allow ordinary people to develop extraordinary apps that solve everyday business problems. Source: The untapped potential of citizen developers This has been underway for quite some time as…
Australia’s smart phone contact tracing app found 17 potential “cases”
The Australian government says its COVIDSafe app identified 2,827 potential close contacts from 37,668 encounters in NSW and Victoria. Only 17 cases in NSW were identified separately to manual contact…
Did you know that Covid can tell the difference between a wedding and a funeral attendee?
Amazing – SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t target funeral attendees, only targets wedding attendees. Can weddings go ahead? People are not allowed to attend or hold a wedding in greater Sydney. What about…
Six US States ban the sale of high end gaming computers because “climate change”
My house is powered by solar photovoltaic panels – why should my use of a gaming PC be prohibited? I generate my own power, carbon free. US States California, Colorado,…
That’s fast: “Japan breaks internet speed record with a 319Tbps data transfer”
Japanese researchers have broken an internet speed record by transferring data at 319Tbps — nearly twice as fast as last year’s achievement.. Source: Japan breaks internet speed record with a…
Confusion over “cloth face coverings” versus effective N95s continues
In March of 2020, public health told us that wearing medical grade face masks did not work when used by the general public. Then on Apr 6, 2020, they told…