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.
How multi-day averaging time shifts data
Understandably, we all use 7-day, or 14 or 15-day or even 30 day moving averages to review trends. This is very useful when the underlying data has wild swings. This…
Public health expert calls for immediate nationwide lockdowns
This enables the privileged wealthy to outsource their risk to low paid grocery workers, InstaCart deliveries and so on. Wonderful! She also wants to mandate N95 masks at all times,…
Austria joins France and White house in saying cloth masks do not work
Austria now joins France and the White House in saying that cloth masks do not work. Austria now mandates use of N95 masks at all times when shopping in stores.…
Electric vehicles, now
This part is likely negative for the environment: Biden administration will also pursue direct-consumer rebates to encourage American car buyers to swap out fossil-fuel-powered cars for zero-emission vehicles. Source: Biden…
Why would one large metro not see a holiday “surge” while the next one over did?
State health chief said the state appeared not be seeing as big a post-Christmas surge as it had expected. Source: Sacramento region’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order being lifted | The Sacramento…
Face masks work they said: Ontario Canada considering “more extreme measures” on top of existing lock downs
January 8, 2021: TORONTO (Reuters) – Ontario is considering “more extreme measures” on top of the widespread lockdowns in place, the premier said on Friday, Source: Canada’s Ontario says ‘more…