Time to start hoarding again
Yesterday, I completed a long cross country driving trip. On the last day, we encountered a restaurant that had just gone out of business, other restaurants that are back to…
Blame the people
This is what happens when “experts” are completely disconnected from real people and real lives: As someone else said about this, “Tell me you are a public health official without…
Axios notes the confusing messaging from public health experts
Trust has been lost: “The Biden administration’s handling of the Delta surge has left Americans confused and frustrated, fueling media overreaction and political manipulation,” Axios’ Mike Allen wrote over the…
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!
Heh – Company CEO favors tax on his competitors
Laughable: The founder of the world’s biggest plant-based meat company has suggested that a tax on meat could help tackle some of the problems from growing meat consumption. Source: Beyond…
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…
Remember that shortage of software developers?
Low-code platforms allow ordinary people to develop extraordinary apps that solve everyday business problems. Source: The untapped potential of citizen developers This has been underway for quite some time as…
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…