What an ACA insurance policy costs
The typical annual premium for job-based coverage in 2020 was $7,470 for individuals and $21,342 for family coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Source: The government will fully cover…
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.
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…