Follow up: NY Times-“The evidence that high inflation is coming is weak”.
It takes a special kind of expert to be wrong more often than a coin flip. Here, the NY Times tells us in Feb 2021 that inflation will remain low…
Idiocy: The Post of the Day
Am thinking of making this topic a regular feature – but there are not enough days in the year and so many idiots! The original tweet from Harvard Med was…
Follow up: “The winter COVID wave that wasn’t”
Despite projections the U.S. could see more than 100 million COVID-19 cases this fall and winter, the country did not experience a true winter wave for the first time. Source:…
Public health and political officials accountable?
In April 2020, we wrote: ‘Lockdown is going to bankrupt all of us and our descendants and is unlikely at this point to slow or halt viral circulation.’ So it…
Brain injuries: “Power Slap League: a brutal ‘sport’ that may leave contestants with brain damage”
Power Slap - There is nothing entertaining or sportsman-like about this atrocity. Dana White is the definition of fucking asshole, a jerk and a total moron for encouraging the sport…
Wrong: “They’re also at altitudes that could effect [sic] the safety of civilian air traffic”
“In the wake of that … the military fine-tunes their radar parameters to see more and of course they’re finding more. And you got these three, and they’re unidentified, they’re…
Aviation: NORAD and USAF shoot down hobby balloons
Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community. Source: Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF…
Follow up: “…no question … Czech Republic’s remarkable progress … was the result of requiring an entire society to wear face masks.”
July 2020: There is no question that the Czech Republic’s remarkable progress on COVID-19 was the result of requiring an entire society to wear face masks. Source: How Czech Republic…
Environmental Insanity: Company wants you to ship them your compostable food waste
A new green tech startup wants us to rethink what we do with our banana peels, pepper tops and other kitchen scraps, …. Why it matters: Scraps thrown away in…
Comedy: 15 days to flatten the curve is back!
In Dec 2022 we are back to “just 15 days to flatten the curve!” Then just dogs, cats, deer and rabbits would have Covid! And after those two weeks, we…
Public health believes you are stupid
Actual alert from Los Angeles Public Health. It’s wintertime. And for LA, that brings cooler temperatures, and you need to be told by authorities to wear appropriate clothing:
Arrogance is not a good public relations strategy
I suspect all of us can describe situations when experts were wrong, really wrong – and it was up to us to inform them and correct them to get things…
Public health: Wow
The pandemic of really bad analogies may never end – Even a brain injured idiot like me can figure out why this is nonsense: The primary function of Twitter is…
Idiocy: All the experts who did “everything right” got Covid, but we expect 6 and 9 year olds to be more successful
The mask force is strong with this one: Dr. Betty Choi, a pediatrician, children’s book author and mother of two children in central California, tells Yahoo Life that she’s having…
Twitter: Media has meltdown over proposal to charge a fee for “Blue check”
Much of the media is having a meltdown over Twitter’s proposal to charge users for a Blue Check verified account. Here’s a quote from a Bloomberg news column: The plan…