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Birx as the COVID villain
This is an interesting documentary that makes the point that it was Dr. Deborah Birx rather than Fauci who set a great many of the COVID policies that hurt the nation. It also portrays Trump as a victim of Birx, … Continue reading →
COVID lab leak coverups, then and now
From Matt Taibbi: The problem that’s been threatening Western democracies for years, and which is captured in books like Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public, is the widespread loss of faith in institutional authority. At first this was a … Continue reading →
Reflections on the COVID Twitter files so far
Here’s the Twitter thread itself. I don’t really need to reinvent the wheel and do a blow-by-blow analysis. I’ll just link to this, this, and this. From the latter: In its pathetic attempt to meet the Biden administration’s demands while … Continue reading →
Distrusting health officials: what was the turning point?
I think this was indeed a pivotal moment that made the situation starkly clear: the exact moment my trust in our public heath experts began to erode was in June 2020 when they said “racism is a public health issue … Continue reading →
Looking back at COVID
Certain things about COVID should have been obvious early on to anyone who did any research about it and thought about it. For example, take a look at this post from February 27, 2020: I’ve read that for infectious diseases, … Continue reading →
COVID-19 research: the press interprets
Here’s an article from Time entitled “Up to 80% of COVID-19 Infections Are Asymptomatic, a New Case Report Says.” Sounds as though that’s good news, right? Ah, but Time doesn’t think so: The research shows just how prevalent asymptomatic transmission … Continue reading →
Dr. Birx: “We underestimated very early on the number of asymptomatic cases”
Dr. Birx made this claim in an interview on Saturday: I think we underestimated very early on the number of asymptomatic cases. And I think we’re really beginning to understand there are people that get infected that those symptoms are … Continue reading →
COVID-19: known unknowns and unknown unknowns
There are a great many highly important facts about COVID-19 that are unknown. Many of us know they are unknown, but many people think they are known. An obvious one is the case fatality rate from the disease. It only … Continue reading →
Why are so many of Iran’s leaders sick with coronavirus?
I’ve read quite a bit of coverage about how COVID-19 seems to be affecting a lot of people in Iran, and most of them mention that a great many Iranian officials appear to have been taken ill. Some have even … Continue reading →
On coronavirus (COVID-19) so far: Part II
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] While musing about COVID-19, I wondered whether the virus really is novel. Perhaps it’s been around for a while and just wasn’t causing all that many deaths and therefore wasn’t even noticed until … Continue reading →