Opinion: Practicing Factfulness, Sometimes satire and parody.
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…
More cracks forming in the epidemiological firewall of terror. Today, a major newspaper runs this lengthy article using the “surge” word five times – but never once makes the claim…
More flip flopping on masks – most people don’t know it but OSHA rules for N95 masks mandate no beards. And now this: Tight fit more important than a second…
This in a rural county – the “surge upon surge” in stupidity is growing exponentially: C.O. cross-country HS athletes must wear masks, among other changes – KTVZ
After many failed model projections, does anyone take the UW’s IHME’s astrologist’s forecasts seriously? If you do take them seriously, we’ve got 200,000 unused ventilators you can have. A grim…
Dr. Fauci, July 18, 2020: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci on Friday praised New York for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the state…
Epidemiological disease models have proven worse than astrology. They are constructed with the integrity of alchemy. ICL has been ground zero for generating garbage models, producing output off in space,…
Oregon only does short term disease modeling (about 4 weeks), via the Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, WA. Their model projections have been wrong – way wrong – 11…
As I discovered, and informed my state’s public health office about, the time shifting of death reports had incorrectly moved peaked deaths from Dec 9th into January. The state agreed…
I’m so old, I remember Neil Ferguson’s projection of 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. by last spring, and Christopher Murray’s projection that NY would run out of ventilators (so…