Wow – what a heart tugging story – well worth reading
Cranbrook, BC is one of my favorite small towns. And after this, it still is 🙂 But then, as he looked at the young woman who had taken his dog,…
Anti-Scam hobbyists taking down India-based scam call centers
There are numerous videos on Youtube of anti-scam hobbyists successfully scamming or destroying scam call centers in India. This video is mind blowing in the sophistication of the scammers and…
Study finds that lockdowns – in the real world – did not reduce deaths
SIP = Shelter in Place In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries implemented social distancing and SIP policies. These policies are designed to slow COVID-19 transmission by limiting physical…
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…
Epidemiologist believes democracy should be declared null and void during a pandemic
In 2020, I saw one public health officer say the Constitution may be suspended during a pandemic. Unfortunately, I did not save that at the time. (If you are wondering,…
Sick: School district wants kids to wear Covid-19 trackers
When middle and high school students go back to campus, they’ll have the option to wear a lanyard that keeps track of social distancing, alerting students when they get too…
Former CDC Director Redfield’s honesty problem
The reasons for spelling “vaccine” as “vacksine” is to slide past the Twitter auto-censor bots. This finding is interesting and unfortunate. Some more background here.
Another leading epidemiologist joins the cloth mask denier community
Acknowledges cloth masks do not work: He is a very widely quoted nutritionist, epidemiologist, health economist from Harvard University demanding all year that schools be closed. It was recently learned…
Oregon paid $1000 for “real Oregonians” to appear in photos to promote face masks
CASTING CALL – RURAL OREGONIANS We’re casting rural Oregonians for a pro-mask photoshoot. The images will be used by the State of Oregon in a PSA promoting COVID19 safety. We’re…
Inept public health messaging convincing people to not get vaccinated. Sigh.
Good grief. Public health communications has been a bonfire of idiocy since day #1: Recent public messaging harps on the idea that people can still become infected and transmit COVID-19…