When I write “media misdirection,” I’m not just talking about the hate-Trump or the anti-US or the pro-China propaganda, although that is certainly commonplace and damaging as well as purposeful. I’m talking about rather neutral scientific articles such as this … Continue reading →
What wonderful people: Kelly will be among a few dozen nurses and doctors from Samaritan’s Purse, a nondenominational evangelical Christian humanitarian organization, working at a field hospital set up in Central Park — across the street from Mount Sinai Hospital … Continue reading →
There are so many good articles around that I despair of doing them all justice with a full discussion, so here’s a short roundup of some of the best or most interesting. (1) Germany has a plan to start testing … Continue reading →
Here’s a good question from commenter “Sharon W”: Shouldn’t [Mexico’s] numbers be worse than ours, not having enacted any orders and living life in normal fashion? I thought maybe the weather, but I checked Tijuana and it is the same … Continue reading →
…the cruelest month. Or at least, a cruel month. But it’s not really a surprising announcement; I didn’t think the edicts would be lifted as soon as right after Easter. That line about April being the cruelest month is usually … Continue reading →
Commenter “Montage” writes: Covid-19 is not just like the flu, which some want you to believe. In all the years of the flu we didn’t have hospital bed shortages or a worry about the number of ventilators that will be … Continue reading →
I think the public is scared enough. But apparently the press doesn’t think so. They play with the statistics, picking and choosing the most alarming measure among them in order to further panic the people and the better to criticize … Continue reading →
The explanation for why New York City is being hit so hard is that it has such a dense population as well as a great deal of reliance on public transportation, as well as a lot of international travel. The … Continue reading →
I had a couple of sites bookmarked as my go-to places to find the latest US (state by state) and world (country by country) statistics. The best one seemed to be this, but in the last few days the figures … Continue reading →
Sorry for posting a bit late today. I find that one of the many things that happens to me lately is that my sleep has been somewhat more disturbed. I either have trouble falling asleep, or I wake up in … Continue reading →
Epidemiologists deal with dry facts and figures, but the subject matter of those facts and figures can be very dramatic: illness and death, and how best to go about minimizing the former and delaying the latter. Usually we don’t pay … Continue reading →
Well, maybe not the first casualty. But the entire concept of globalization is taking a big hit. And rightly so: The question about assigning agency and blame is pretty straightforward to answer: The communist Chinese state, which for more than … Continue reading →