We tried 200 covid-19 vaccines so you don’t have to! | Coldstreams Business and Tech
I wrote this in August of 2020 as a joke – it was satire and parody of news headlines. Sadly, many of these headlines ended up becoming real!: We tried…
Follow up: Fiegl-Ding says UK is killing people
Fiegl-Ding’s claim did not age well. In mid-July, Eric Feigl-Ding, a nutritionist who fashioned himself as an epidemiologist, said the UK’s Covid plans would kill people in this superlative laden…
Fully vaccinated marathon runners mandated to wear masks, outdoors
Fully vaccinated marathon runners mandated to wear face masks – outdoors – for about one-third of a marathon. Because Trust Sciencetm Race Week Health Protocols – The San Francisco Marathon…
Follow up from July 2021: In Australia “Lockdowns work and we have no alternative”
Photo is of Australian government mandatory quarantine facility camp near Darwin: Source: Covid-19: Lockdowns work and we have no alternative How did the lock down do? Sydney began a lock…
Facebook’s algorithms promote posts featuring “outrage” and “sensationalism”, leading to more outrage and divisiveness
Facebook curates your “news feed”. FB promotes posts that have likes, comments or shares, or which are from people you have previously interacted with. The posts from friends with whom…
It’s all mask theater, 24 x 7
At the national 9/11 ceremony on Saturday, the politicians were all milling about, outdoors, no masks, chatting with each other. Minutes later, they posed for the official photo – all…
Duh: “The tiered restrictions enforced in November 2020 did not impact the epidemiology of the second wave of COVID-19 in Italy”
(Original text had no paragraph breaks – I’ve added them to improve readability. TL;DR Summary: Public health mitigation measures did not work. Decreasing metrics were occurring prior to the introduction…
Perspective: More children shot in Chicago so far this year than have died nationwide of Covid-19
The CDC reported that 214 children 17-years old or younger have died of COVID-19 nationwide so far this year — compared to 261 Chicago kids who have been victims of…
People are giving up on public health mandates
The end of sustainable mandates But it appeared that more than three-fourths of fairgoers weren’t wearing masks outdoors, where they recommended by organizers. In the indoor area where stands were…
Dueling Experts: Risks of vaxxed break through cases
The Times report stated the odds of a fully vaccinated person contracting COVID-19 on a given day are 1 in 5,000, citing statistics from King County, WA and other metro…