Covid-19: We have lost our minds
Band practice. This is a great HS band (seriously) – have seen them in performance many times. But this is insane. How does this stop aerosol spread? Source: Back at…
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!!!!!!!
This describes disease models too: “The risks of communicating extreme climate forecasts”
The same for 2020/2021’s Covid-19 disease models: For decades, climate change researchers and activists have used dramatic forecasts to attempt to influence public perception of the problem and as a…
Chuck Yeager on taking kids flying
https://twitter.com/GenChuckYeager/status/1365052647271759879
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…
Surge in good news as study shows decline in graphs
I saw this on social media. It dates back at least to April of 2020 but is just as relevant now.
And now they say globalization does not work
I’m so old, I remember a year ago when global supply chains were the future. During the pandemic, the U.S. couldn’t import enough gloves. Recently, car makers ran out of…
Inept public health messaging convincing people to not get vaccinated. Sigh.
Good grief. Public health communications has been a bonfire of idiocy since day #1: Recent public messaging harps on the idea that people can still become infected and transmit COVID-19…
Geologists leveraging Amateur Radio networks in aftermath of large quakes
Early damage and “shake” reports help seismologists quickly understand the quake’s impact. But the loss of communications typical after a major quake has created a “donut hole” of missing information.…