Covid policies around the country
A majority of states do not require school students to wear face masks in school. A majority of states have ended their emergency declarations. Only 8 states still have indoor…
Follow up: Another superspreader forecast collapses
“I don’t think it’s smart,” Fauci said during a CNN interview after he was shown pictures of college football stadiums with maskless fans. “Outdoors is always better than indoors, but…
Follow up in 2022: The Christmas and Thanksgiving “superspreader” forecasts
I have seen forecasts that Halloween will be a superspreader so of course, Thanksgiving and Christmas are back on the list (neither were superspreaders in 2020 per the data): COVID-19…
Yet another superspreader forecast crashed and burned
Disease model forecasts make astrology look reliable: In the final weeks of this summer, with Covid-19 cases soaring and the rituals of autumn about to resume, many people assumed that…
Yet another superspreader event that wasn’t
It’s as if Crying Wolf at every opportunity has backfired and absolutely no one is going to pay attention to “expert” epiastrologists anymore: “While we have not linked any cases…
Another super spreader model fail
Disease models are essentially useless. Their primary value is to issue scary forecasts, that are wrong. Even when correct, they do not provide actionable value. “In August, we estimated there…
Another “superspreader” forecast falls flat
Re-opening of public schools was going to cause a mass increase in “positive cases”. Like nearly all super spreader predictions, this one failed too. In many countries, children have been…
Fantastic: Researcher Trevor Bedford receives MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant
Bedford has just been named a MacArthur Fellow and was also awarded a $9 million, 7-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for his work on the pandemic. Source:…
Follow up: “Surge expected after labor day”
Leading up to Labor Day weekend (Sep 4, 5 and 6), the “experts” warned us of a “Surge expected after Labor Day” as people would congregate and not wear cloth…
We tried 200 covid-19 vaccines so you don’t have to! | Coldstreams Business and Tech
I wrote this in August of 2020 as a joke – it was satire and parody of news headlines. Sadly, many of these headlines ended up becoming real!: We tried…