I’ve noticed a smattering of headlines lately in the MSM that seem to be saying that ending the lockdown has produced a spike in cases. I haven’t done more than skim a couple, because spikes in cases are meaningless to … Continue reading →
I guess protestors and rioters are immune to COVID. Or at least, they pose no danger to Grandma. Or even if they do and grandma dies as a result, they’re not really granny-killers since their cause is just. People who … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote about that influential Lancet study that had become suspect. Well, today its authors have retracted it. The statement from the journal can be found here. Excerpt: …[O]ur independent peer reviewers informed us that Surgisphere would not transfer … Continue reading →
It wouldn’t be the first time, either. Once hydroxychloroquine was touted by Trump as a possible tool against COVID, the drug’s days were numbered. Is it any wonder that a major study came out against it, and now there’s growing … Continue reading →
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 →
Trump’s got good “hunches.” Apparently, this was one of them: …[B]ack in March, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated a 3.4 percent [case] fatality rate and Dr. Anthony Fauci estimated that the [case] fatality rate of the coronavirus was about … Continue reading →
I like some of Steven Pinker’s work. His book The Better Angels of Our Nature, for example (which I wrote about here) presents a fascinating thesis that is quite persuasive, although it sounds absurd when you first hear it: that … Continue reading →
I think his instincts are correct on this: “People say that’s a very distinct possibility. It’s standard. And we’re going to put out the fires. We’re not going to close the country. We’re going to put out the fires,” Trump … Continue reading →
The MSM has it backwards, of course: A couple of months ago, the media, almost as one, decided that Governor Ron DeSantis was a public menace who was going to get Floridians killed with his lax response to the coronavirus … Continue reading →
From Stephen Green at Instapundit: See also this: In March, as Cuomo and his braintrust were running about like beheaded chickens shouting about models and Italy, his administration issued an order that required nursing homes to accept hospital patients recovering … Continue reading →
First they say that masks are worthless. Don’t wear them, even though medical personnel do. Then they say that masks might be at at least somewhat helpful, but not all that helpful unless they are of the N95 type that … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.] In Singapore: From the YouTube comments: We’ve watched him grow from a puppy now he’s got a job soon he’ll be killing us As we go off into the weekend, I’ll add something more … Continue reading →