UK SAGE Disease Modeler only models worst case scenarios
Hmmmmm: My Twitter conversation with the chairman of the Sage Covid modelling committee | The Spectator This UK disease modeler says he only models worst case – and does not…
Study finds automated license plate readers are ineffective
“Analyzing sixteen years of stolen vehicle numbers from Piedmont, California—a “super user” of ALPRs—this report finds no statistical evidence that ALPRs have deterred motor theft. Moreover: There is an absence…
Omicron travel bans make no sense
I made this chart on Nov 30th Dec 1st, and it is up to date as of that day. As of Dec 3, there are 38 countries with confirmed cases,…
What? Government spending will lower inflation
She just disqualified her self – it does not work this way – at all: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNBC on Friday that the administration’s infrastructure spending proposal will…
California sea ports among least efficient in the world
Have you noticed that the media is incapable of using the word infrastructure without prefacing it “crumbling“? English should be like German and just combine the words into one: crumblinginfrastructure!…
No it isn’t: Missouri governor says viewing HTML source code containing private data the state published on every page, is a crime
Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security…
Gallup poll: “Americans Revert to Favoring Reduced Government Role”
Likely an effect of authoritarian rule the past 19 months: Americans once again say the government is doing too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. Source:…
This sure looks like the goal is to control the people
This Nature item advocates taxing EVs by weight, saying because batteries are heavy, models say EVs will result in more highway fatalities (all things being equal – but what if…
Feds order Google to turn over contact info of anyone who uses certain search terms
The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows. There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten…
Duh: “The tiered restrictions enforced in November 2020 did not impact the epidemiology of the second wave of COVID-19 in Italy”
(Original text had no paragraph breaks – I’ve added them to improve readability. TL;DR Summary: Public health mitigation measures did not work. Decreasing metrics were occurring prior to the introduction…