Does auto-enrollment in retirement plans make sense?
Source: A new law would require employees to save for retirement – MarketWatch The law would mandate automatic payroll deductions of 3%, rising 1% per year until 10% is reached…
What is the NNT and efficacy for face masks?
NNT is the number needed to treat to result in one positive outcome. Stated another way, how many people need to wear a face mask to eliminate one new case…
9 months ago outdoor assemblies of people were not mass spreader events but now they are mass spreader events?
Outdoor protests in June of 2020 said not to be a source of Covid-19 spread. There isn’t evidence that Black Lives Matter protests have led to a noticeable increase in…
I make observations and ask stupid questions
Just an observation about the “4th wave”. The first 3 waves had similar upwards slopes in the epicurves (yellow lines at left). This curve, so far, for the supposed 4th…
Surge in good news: “Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is 100% effective in children ages 12-15”
Source: Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is 100% effective in children ages 12-15 Is “Surge” a militaristic white supremacy verb? No, it is not but that didn’t stop a politician…
The world is consuming 3 million face masks PER MINUTE
No one gave any thought to this side effect of face masks – there was and is no plan for mask recycling: Recent studies estimated an astounding 129 billion face…
Well good: Covid vaccination likely protects those around you too
This would be the idea, of course, as the surge in good news grows: In fact it is becoming increasingly clear the jab is a very big step towards protecting…
Boondoggle: Oregon’s smart phone contact tracing app failure
Smart phone contact tracing apps are a technology whose time never arrived: Months after agency officials said they were actively “assessing the results” of a trial conducted at Oregon State…
How the media warps our view towards negativity and fear regarding Covid-19
Original Earlier this week, I saw a reporter post on social media that the job of journalists is to find problems and expose them. By definition, their focus is exclusively…
Chart of trend in published Covid-19 papers is now linear
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