Idiocy: The Post of the Day
Am thinking of making this topic a regular feature – but there are not enough days in the year and so many idiots! The original tweet from Harvard Med was…
Follow up: Czech is why we must all wear cloth face masks
March 2020 In the spring of 2020, Covid case counts were low in the Czech Republic. A native writer from Czech, now living a dual life in both the US…
Public health: “Trust in public health shattered”
Am surprised its only half: Trust in public health has been shattered—half of America has lost faith in the scientific community altogether. Source: W.H.O. Do You Trust? | Opinion
Today is the 3rd annual “15 days to flatten the curve” National Holiday
Today is the 3rd annual “15 days to flatten the curve” National Holiday. Most people celebrate it on March 15, but I celebrate on February 27th. How about you? This…
Mission Creep: What happened to public health?
Dating to the 1700s and earlier the roots of public health had been the noblest of endeavors, doctors and engineers collaborating for smarter hygiene and infrastructure. Up through World War…
Follow up: “The winter COVID wave that wasn’t”
Despite projections the U.S. could see more than 100 million COVID-19 cases this fall and winter, the country did not experience a true winter wave for the first time. Source:…
Follow up: “Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right – The New York Times”
The NY Times relied upon a software engineer who retrained in sociology to study the intersection of technology and society to write columns on epidemiology topics. The NY Times gave…
Expert Follow up: Prof. Zeynup Tufekci’s 2020 Covid forecasts
By the time it was over, Slovakia had the 11th highest mortality rate in the world. But to her, in 2020, a low initial Covid count proved masks worked. This…
Stanford University and others sought massive censorship of Internet content
The Virality Project is part of the Stanford Internet Observatory which trolled the Internet looking for “misinformation” and “disinformation” – but become a source of disinformation seeking to ban true…
Public health and political officials accountable?
In April 2020, we wrote: ‘Lockdown is going to bankrupt all of us and our descendants and is unlikely at this point to slow or halt viral circulation.’ So it…