I keep seeing and hearing references to the supposed fact that COVID-19 is known to be spread by asymptomatic people infected with the virus, in addition of course to symptomatic people. It was one of the first things I heard … Continue reading →
Here’s the speech. I can’t find a good full text from which to cut-and-paste excerpts (that C-SPAN link doesn’t allow cut-and-paste), but he has banned travel from Europe (except the UK) for the 30 days starting Friday. He also is … Continue reading →
When I was in my 40s and quite healthy, I got viral pneumonia. I caught it from my son and husband, who were likewise young and healthy. Fortunately, we all recovered uneventfully, but it still knocked us all out for … Continue reading →
When I was a child I liked to read. Actually, I still like to read – obviously. But as a child there was a limit to the books to which I had access. The library only let me into the … Continue reading →
This post at Legal Insurrection links to and quotes a Canadian doctor on the subject of the coronavirus panic. Although I’m not a doctor, it expresses my feelings and online research quite well. Here is the gist of it: I … Continue reading →
Recently I went to the store for some stuff and decided to look for some hand sanitizer, since it’s what people are recommending. It wasn’t really surprising, but it was as though a plague of Purell-seeking locusts had hit. And … Continue reading →
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 →
I don’t recall it, and you probably don’t either, because I don’t think it ever happened. The pandemic was covered by the press, but not in anything like the way the COVID-19 illness is being covered now. Because Obama was … Continue reading →
From Austin Bay: When COVID-19 struck Iran, the ayatollahs followed the same script. They lied and denied, and the contagion began to kill. Pompeo’s insinuation that the regime harmed its own people had a factual basis. The day before he … Continue reading →
I’ve written several posts already, trying to offer the main facts so far as they emerge. But I see so much stuff out there that’s not only obvious fear-mongering, but just plain incorrect. It’s true that we don’t yet know … Continue reading →
[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 →
Recently there’s been some talk (including in the comments on this blog) of a theory that high doses of aspirin played a key role in exacerbating the number of deaths in the 1918 flu pandemic: The high case-fatality rate—especially among … Continue reading →