Well good: Covid vaccination likely protects those around you too
This would be the idea, of course, as the surge in good news grows: In fact it is becoming increasingly clear the jab is a very big step towards protecting…
Boondoggle: Oregon’s smart phone contact tracing app failure
Smart phone contact tracing apps are a technology whose time never arrived: Months after agency officials said they were actively “assessing the results” of a trial conducted at Oregon State…
How the media warps our view towards negativity and fear regarding Covid-19
Original Earlier this week, I saw a reporter post on social media that the job of journalists is to find problems and expose them. By definition, their focus is exclusively…
Chart of trend in published Covid-19 papers is now linear
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Mitigation measures are lacking in evidence
The next time your local politician or public health director tells you it’s Based on ScienceTM, show them this: Non-drug interventions should be based on evidence. We need to generate…
Elementary classrooms re-open with bare walls, desks, no books or toys
And these “rules” are completely different from one district to another because its random Covid-theatrics not based on evidence: kindergarten classroom without toys, books, counting buttons, a reading chair, or…
White House proposes making all roads into toll roads, pay flat rate per mile
Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, said that the White House is weighing a mileage tax and special bonds to fund infrastructure. …. He spoke fondly of a mileage levy, which…
Surge in good news: “UK study finds strong immune responses from one dose of Pfizer COVID-19 shot”
One dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine offers an immune response similar to that generated by infection and could also offer protection from variants to people who have previously had the…
When computer science is mandated in K-12 schools, what subjects will be cut to make time for this?
A new law will require the Mississippi Department of Education to set a computer science curriculum for K-12 schools by the 2024-25 academic year. Source: Mississippi law will require computer…
Texas, 2 weeks post “apocalyptic forecasts”
I had on my reminder list to check back on the situation in Texas, two weeks after their state removed all restrictions. Numerous “experts” predicted apocalypse. But two weeks later,…