Public health: Highly infectious viral pandemics end through immunity
A Harvard med school professor notes that infectious viral epidemics only end through immunity; NPIs, at best, delay but do not end pandemics.
Public health: This is from an actual professor at Oxford
An Oxford professor says we should reliably trace who you got Covid from, and then file suit for personal injury. Seriously.
Public Health: “Experts” think we should be wearing masks again
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. "Experts" say we should all wear masks again.
Public health: “When to wear a mask”
Back to masks? Covid: When to wear masks as cases rise, new variants emerge in U.S. (cnbc.com) Says that mask mandates in “health care settings and businesses” and schools, can…
Public health: Just 15 boosters to flatten the curve, time to wear masks again
It may be time to break out the masks against Covid, some experts say | CNN “Hospitalizations have not yet doubled, but I think they probably will, as the numbers…
Public health: CDC’s social distancing and lock down concepts inspired by China
The official meme was lock downs came from a 14 year old's science fair project, but seems the idea came from China.
Should we all be “preppers”?
Preppers is the term given to those who plan for disasters – for some, like us, this means the ordinary situation like power outages, while for others, it is preparing…
Public health: King County may rehire those it fired over vaccine mandates
The County lost hundreds of employees over vaccine mandates. Hundreds were fired and hundreds more resigned to avoid being fired. Now, faced with a labor shortage – in some departments,…
Public health: Public health doctors say they were wrong about school closures
Doctors reflect on race, schools three years into Covid-19 (missionlocal.org) Dr. Carlos del Rio, interim dean at Emory University School of Medicine, said public health experts didn’t foresee the effect…
Public health: Study finds lockdowns led to minimal reduction in Covid-19 deaths
Stringency index studies find that the average lockdown in Europe and the United States in the spring of 2020 only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 3.2 per cent. …. Herby, Jonung,…