No, not really. And strangely enough, it’s NPR that’s reporting this: In a leaked report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a surprising claim about the delta variant of the coronavirus: It “is as transmissible as: – Chicken … Continue reading →
Some COVID statistics to ponder. ADDENDUM: A recent study from England with some interesting data can be found here. I can’t find any discussion of which vaccines were involved (if you see it, please let me know). But I have … Continue reading →
Wow: Out of a population of 25.8 million, fewer than 1,000 Australians have died from COVID-19 to date. The latest uptick in cases, which has sent the country into a panic, is still only resulting in less than 5 deaths … Continue reading →
The stage has been set for enormous fear around COVID. We’ve been conditioned to it and guided to it for almost a year and a half. At first it made some sense. The initial news and photos from China, and … Continue reading →
One of the few – very few – blessings connected with COVID so far has been that for the most part children have not had bad cases, and very few deaths. Our children and grandchildren are precious beyond description, and … Continue reading →
The long-term closing of schools and the substitution of remote learning was one of the worst decisions of many bad decisions made during the lockdown. There’s now a study that attempts to measure some of the effects: The study, from … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] If someone – say, Howard Hughes (to take one obvious example) – wants to become an eccentric isolate in an attempt to protect himself against disease or other mishap, I may think he’s … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is the first part of a planned 2-parter.] First of all, we have the politics of the COVID response: (1) Authorities like to be authoritarian and order people around. So there is psychological satisfaction from it. (2) It … Continue reading →
There’s some news about the study that purports to explain why the CDC changed its mask recommendations to saying that even vaccinated people need to wear masks indoors in higher-COVID areas. Here’s a link to the actual study results. I … Continue reading →
Here’s the edict: US Capitol Police officers will arrest visitors and staff members who refuse to comply with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s renewed COVID-19 mask mandate — heightening tensions with Republicans who call the mandate an unscientific power trip. Police … Continue reading →
During the Trump administration, the left demanded the most rigorous of clinical trials and controls before any possible treatment that the right – and Trump in particular – might have suggested was possibly helpful in fighting COVID. And yet this … Continue reading →
Actually, it sometimes feels as though the entire world has gone stark raving mad lately. But some places have gone more mad than others: Case in point, Australia: It’s hard to know exactly when Australia’s pandemic response crossed the line … Continue reading →