CDC says most Americans have been wearing masks since spring of 2020
Does this mean the CDC is saying that face masks did not work to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as cases exploded since then? Despite President Trump’s very public resistance…
My predictions are as worthless as anyone elses
I think my state (Oregon) peaked in new positive test results on Nov 21st, peaked in new hospitalizations on Nov 30th, and will peak on reported deaths within about a…
Kinsa HealthWeather™
Kinsa model down to just 3 states still in an accelerating trend and all 3 of those may now be in a downwards trend (too early to tell yet but…
Best tutorial on learning to use Fusion 360
Computer aided design (CAD) tools like Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks – are difficult to learn to use. Most available online tutorials are out of date as the software is updated…
The Thanksgiving travel surge did not happen
Update: On December 15th, the Oregon Health Authority reported 54 deaths (all of these deaths took place across about six weeks prior to today’s report). Of these, 42 of those…
Don’t hold a get together, hold a protest!
The order, which takes effect Monday and will last until at least Dec. 21, exempts church services and protests, which county health officials said are constitutionally protected. Source: More California…
Hypocrites Part 1: The Elite who ignore their own public health orders
This list is obsolete. Please refer to the updated Part 1: https://coldstreams.com/2022/11/17/hypocrites-part-1-the-elite-who-ignore-their-own-public-health-orders/ Part 2: https://coldstreams.com/2022/11/17/hypocrites-part-2-the-elite-who-ignore-their-own-public-health-orders/ Expecting this to be an historic event, I started taking notes – copious notes in…
89% of the U.S. is wearing face masks where required
According to research at CMU, 89% of those surveyed wear a face mask, as required. Source: Home – COVIDcast – Delphi Research Group – Carnegie Mellon University When a public…
Study finds no one understands which pandemic control policies work or do not work
This report’s conclusions are what I observed with the eyeball-o-matic Stat-O-Meter since the beginning – there are rarely correlations between policies and effectiveness in reducing the spread of Covid-19. The…
What is the most power efficient (least electricity use) programming language?
Can energy usage data tell us anything about the quality of our programming languages? Last year a team of six researchers in Portugal from three different universities decided to investigate…