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…
Public health: Everyone has now had Covid or will shortly, regardless of “caution”
Essentially, everyone in the country is at risk for infection now, even if they’re super careful, up to date on vaccines or have caught it before, said Paula Cannon, a…
Today is day #1066 of 15 days to flatten the curve and we get this …
We just need to lock down harder and longer, say the “experts”: That person self identifies as a professor. If only the U.S. had been more like China, this would…
Public health: Was public health honest about anything?
China, after ending its non-sustainable ZeroCovid strategy, is now having a massive outbreak of Covid. That’s interesting: China also has near universal face mask compliance. But universal face masks and…
Dueling experts: New Covid variant risk low, or high, or whatever
Dueling experts: If you think dueling experts causes confusion and lack of confidence in their assertions – well, that is your problem! They are ExpertsTM – trust The ScienceTM Some…
It’s official: NPIs cannot stop the spread of Covid, but might delay it a little
Up to 90% of the US population has had Covid by now, say some official estimates. Hard to understand what the goal is here – per reports, older variants are…
Economy, public health: Public Health should not have unilateral rule making power
But as real-world data came in from places other than China the excuses for poor decisions become thinner, and the ceding of public policy choices to public health officials becomes…
Public health: The purpose of public health policies was to enlarge authoritarian governments
In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments…
Public Health: If only we had 15 days to flatten the curve …
Nature seems to be arguing that we return to those hugely successful NPIs like lock downs and masks, which stopped Covid flat. Right.
China Covid Cases Surge Infecting 37 Million People a Day, According to Estimate – Bloomberg
If only China had locked down more like, you know, China, they could have flattened the curve in just 15 days. Trust ScienceTM Nearly 37 million people in China may…