CDC recommends shaving of beards
Certain types of facial hair, like beards, can make mask fitting difficult. Masks that fit well protect you better. To have a better fit, people with beards can shave their…
52 billion face masks were thrown away in 2020
Good thing this environmental degradation was for a good cause – it stopped Covid dead in its tracks!
Masks for vaccinated people are ‘mostly about protecting the unvaccinated’ says NIH Director
Confusing messaging, again: The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, acknowledged that new COVID-19 restrictions are primarily about protecting unvaccinated Americans as cases of the Delta…
Australia’s smart phone contact tracing app found 17 potential “cases”
The Australian government says its COVIDSafe app identified 2,827 potential close contacts from 37,668 encounters in NSW and Victoria. Only 17 cases in NSW were identified separately to manual contact…
Did you know that Covid can tell the difference between a wedding and a funeral attendee?
Amazing – SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t target funeral attendees, only targets wedding attendees. Can weddings go ahead? People are not allowed to attend or hold a wedding in greater Sydney. What about…
A year ago, I said smart phone tracing apps had numerous problems and were not suited for contact detection … then this happened
Last week, the UK contact dection phone system “pinged” one half million residents who were then forced into isolation for ten days. Even the Prime Minister, who was hospitalized for…
Up to 90% of UK adults have Covid-19 antibodies
This does not distinguish between those with vaccination immunity and natural immunity – just that they are shown to have antibodies to Covid-19 (does not include those with T-cell immunity…
15-days to flatten the curve was 18 months
Following nearly a year and a half of sheltering in place, Oregon reopened for business on June 30. Source: What does reopening Oregon really mean? : Oregon Vaccine News 15-days…
Canada’s smart phone Covid-19 tracking app found to be mostly worthless
I pointed out in the spring of 2020, and several times since then, that smartphone based Covid-19 tracking apps were essentially worthless and applying tech in a way that would…
Follow up: Post Memorial Day Surge in cases?
Back around Memorial Day, the “experts” predicted yet another “surge in new cases”: Follow up in mid June: Post holiday spike in cases? | Coldstreams Business and Tech What actually…