Data suggests lockdowns did not work and could never work
Pre-pandemic there were published peer reviewed papers that found lockdowns only worked in limited circumstances, right at the very beginning and only for a limited duration. So what we have…
Today is Annual 15 days to flatten the curve National Holiday
Today is the new annual national holiday commemorating how we ended Covid-19 in just 15 days in 2020!!!!!!!
We need a plan to unwind the fear, the panic and the hysteria
We need a plan to unwind the fear, the panic and the hysteria. We have no plan while epiastrologists feed us a daily diet of ever more scary scenarios. The…
More poor quality death data
In my state, as previously noted, as deaths increased the state got further behind. The effect was to time shift “reports of deaths” from the past into the future. On…
NBER research paper finds college educated workers should postpone saving for retirement until they are older
Their thesis: We examine optimal retirement saving for young adults in a life cycle model. We find that for liquidity-constrained young adults who anticipate significant earnings growth, optimal retirement saving…
How to think like an epidemiologist
Identify your conclusion. Cherry pick to prove that which you assume to be true, is true. You’ll learn more from the comments than the original post. Someone correlates the decline…
Cancel culture
I recently learned about people who lost jobs because they Liked a social media post – the post was okay but the person posting it was not. This, in turn,…
Another public health myth: Posting your vaccine card online can enable scammers to create phony cards
You can just download the original PDF file for the blank cards from public health web sites: By sharing photos of your card, you may be giving scammers information they…
California’s non-existent holiday surge
There was a surge in epidemiologists saying there would be a surge in post holiday cases of Covid-19. There was also a surge in news reports saying that California’s expanding…
The Covid Tracking Project will discontinue tracking as of March 7, 2021
More here. They intend to publish links to alternative data sources that are now available to the public.