Follow up: Authoritarianism is Necessary
When dueling celebrity epidemiologists met social media, a catastrophe occurred: a complete loss of trust in science itself.
Wrong: “They’re also at altitudes that could effect [sic] the safety of civilian air traffic”
“In the wake of that … the military fine-tunes their radar parameters to see more and of course they’re finding more. And you got these three, and they’re unidentified, they’re…
Follow up: Disease model projection, March 17, 2020
In the first 3 months, Neil Ferguson’s disease model projected: Every item projected by Neil Ferguson’s team was wrong, immensely wrong. Neil Ferguson recommended the UK’s lockdown strategy, but then…
Follow up: “…no question … Czech Republic’s remarkable progress … was the result of requiring an entire society to wear face masks.”
July 2020: There is no question that the Czech Republic’s remarkable progress on COVID-19 was the result of requiring an entire society to wear face masks. Source: How Czech Republic…
Tech: Media confusion on H-1B visas among widespread tech job layoffs
Between Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), about 100,000 workers were just laid off. I’m so old, l remember last week (Jan 12) when they needed to hire more temporary imported…
How health insurance may have made health care more expensive
Our overpriced ACA policy for 2023 has a deductible of $17,600. I kid you not. The average deductible for an individual in 2022 is around $1,760, which is double what…
Transportation: Oregon plans per mile vehicle usage fee, and to track all vehicles
Except I can and do turn off my cell phone: Another concern of Oregonians, according to Rep. Lively, is privacy. Many people worry about the state having the ability to…
Autos: New Law mandates “kill switch” on all new vehicles sold in 2027
Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars for all new vehicles sold beginning in 2027. Requires that vehicles automatically determine if a driver is impaired and refuse to…
US government attempted to control online speech about Covid topics
Twitter censored online speech about Covid topics. 100% of what most of us see is selectively reported, edited, hidden, then curated, promoted, de-emphasized, censored as part of someone's propaganda campaign.
Demographics: Less demand for college degrees
‘Instead of focusing on demonstrated competence, the focus too often has been on a piece of paper,’ Utah governor stated Source: Utah axes degree requirement for 98% of civil servant…