The hilarious (and nonsensical) Covid-19 rules that were applied to many of us
This is a hoot. In a Twitter thread, people post the dumbest Covid-19 things they were required to do. A teacher says she was required to “quarantine” homework turned in…
June 10, 2020: If we wear masks, we will have no subsequent large waves
This was the experts prediction in June 2020. This did not age well. If lock-down periods are combined with 100% adoption of facemask use by the public, the initial disease…
Math education is critical to our future
Read the whole thread. There are school districts that are proposing to remove advanced math courses because students who take them benefit and students who do not take them, do…
Fast-food industry accelerates use of automation as wages go higher
I have written about this trend on many occasions for several years: Source: Former McDonald’s CEO warns $15 minimum wage directly contributing to fast-food industry’s automation push | Fox Business…
What Is the Broken Window Fallacy?
The Broken Window FallacyIn Bastiat’s tale, a boy breaks a window. The townspeople looking on decide that the boy has actually done the community a service because his father will…
Cases continue dropping after CDC reduced mask requirements
Some things we now know N95s work, certified surgical masks work somewhat less, in medical settings, and home made cloth masks of unknown materials, design and construction were likely ineffective.…
Why masks had essentially no effect on Covid-19 spread
Why are masks so ineffective, even if we presume that they are effective? Because almost everybody that is wearing them does not have COVID-19. So in those people, there is…
Follow up in mid June: Post holiday spike in cases?
Despite all the experts and the media proclaiming post holiday surges – there have been none so far. Let’s follow up in a couple of weeks and take a look…
Funny that: Now that cases are dropping, the “experts” credit vaccines, not masks
The CDC Director told Congress that masks were more effective than vaccines. Repeatedly, the “experts” have told us that “masks work” even though epicurves per 100k population are virtually identical…
Follow up: Eric Feigl-Ding was 99% certain of a surge in April and May
Feigl-Ding projected, with “99% certain” confidence that another “surge is on the way in April or May” due to variants. He was not just a little wrong, he was completely…