Perhaps the most important Tweets I have ever read on Twitter
I am cutting back use of Twitter as most of the stuff there is garbage, increasingly from hysterical people living lives of fear and outrage. But then I read this…
93-95% of US will eventually have gotten Covid
“They’re as transmissible as measles which is one of the most contagious viruses out there. I think most people can expect that they will get infected at some point,” said…
During the pandemic, government spending rose to one-third of personal income, before declining
Source Transfer payments are payment made without a contemporary and corresponding delivery of a good or service. In other words, when you buy groceries, you give money to a store…
Follow up: Monkeypox projection made May 24, 2022
May 24, 2022: Forecast for monkeypox case growth to 300 million by end of June 2022 and everyone on the planet in July of 2022. June 28, 2022: Monkeypox case…
Follow up: Region could suffer another 700,000 Covid deaths by spring
November 23, 2021: The continent is facing a surge of infection which has led to a lockdown in Austria and curbs in the Netherlands. Germany is also weighing tougher measures.…
Follow up: “Emory infectious disease expert on COVID-19 mask ruling: we may see rise in cases”
The country may soon see a rise in COVID-19 infections now that airlines have made masks optional. That’s according to infectious disease expert and Emory University Professor of Medicine Dr.…
Follow up: Health Experts Say This Years [2021-22] Flu Season Could Overwhelm Hospitals
Expert Opinion, September 2021 “The possibility of a ‘twindemic’ is pretty real this year,” said Brian Dixon, the director of public-health informatics at the Regenstrief Institute. Source: Health Experts Say…
Follow up: “Ukraine conflict could spark surges of covid, polio, other diseases, say experts”
Wrong again. As many as 5 million people could flee the country in coming weeks, a movement that some health officials fear will fuel covid and other outbreaks. Source: Ukraine…
Follow up: Joggers and cyclists should wear masks
In January 2021, a professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford said that joggers and cyclists should be wearing masks when exercising outdoors. Here is a…
Follow up: Lifting airline mask mandates “horrifies health experts”
April 27, 2022: Lifting of Covid mask mandate on US transportation horrifies health experts | Airline industry | The Guardian Some travelers celebrate, but health experts worry after a judge…
Oppressive: “CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders”
Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too. …. “The…
Follow up: Utah’s case numbers to quadruple, says model
August 5, 2021 Projection -> Cases to quadruple by October in Utah Vaccination and masks are key to keeping children safe from COVID-19 as they return to school, Utah state…
Follow up: Nebraska Garth Books Concert in August 2021
This was forecast to be a superspreader event. Like all superspreader forecasts, this one was wrong. I marked a red line on the chart indicating when the concert occurred. There…
Follow up: We won’t have enough pediatric hospital beds for Covid patients
Projection from December 2021: Actual Result There were a few states that had high numbers of pediatric patients (many or most of which were, as later reported, incidental cases of…
Follow up: Unlikely to see variants that spread faster than Delta
October 2021: Graven said he’s also preparing for the possibility of another variant. “There will be a day where some variant will probably you know be something that kind of…