VIDEO: Sharon W’s husband leaves the hospital
A very happy and touching moment:
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De Blasio and “the Jewish community”: a tale of two tweets
Nothing to see here pic.twitter.com/kJHHgjeRAA — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) April 29, 2020 The genesis of de Blasio’s admonition to “the Jewish community” – a pretty diverse group, and in NYC a fairly large one – was apparently a funeral for … Continue reading →
COVID-19: prison testing results
Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice would say. In Michigan: Of the 1,403 inmates tested at Lakeland Correctional Facility in Branch County, 785 of them tested positive for the virus. There are about 30 inmates still awaiting results as of Monday … Continue reading →
The COVID curve: apples vs. oranges
One of the many problems with evaluating what’s going on with COVID-19 is that no place on earth is quite like any other place. So one can pick and choose statistics from different areas, depending on what one wishes to … Continue reading →
Fear is an opportunity for tyranny
And ’twas ever thus. One of the many lessons of the COVID-19 response is how easily public officials embrace tyranny, and how many people accept it because of fear. I’m afraid of COVID-19. I’m in a relatively high-risk group, and … Continue reading →
How unique is COVID-19?
A lot of the COVID-19 coverage posits or implies its uniqueness. And of course, every virus is somewhat unique. Is this one that much more unique than others? It resembles regular seasonal flu in its age distribution of deaths, although … Continue reading →
COVID and smoking (also, a little review of H1N1)
It seems counter-intuitive, but it may be that smoking confers some sort of benefit regarding COVID: French researchers want coronavirus patients to wear nicotine patches to study whether it helps prevent or control the disease. Their review of more than … Continue reading →
The Getty challenge
One of the few good things to have happened during this pandemic is the creativity demonstrated out there among people at large. I love to watch comic videos about the shutdown on YouTube, for example, most of them made by … Continue reading →
I’m getting tired of people playing fast and loose with statistics
Reading that title, you might say, “Oh yeah, neo? Get used to it, because it will always happen.” I know, I know. But with this COVID thing, it’s more obvious because nearly everyone is crunching numbers and opining. And that … Continue reading →
All things China
I grew up in an era when China was not only considered an enemy, but an unknown country that was rarely visited and from which little information came that filtered down to the American people: US policy toward China during … Continue reading →
A figure we need to know…
…is the percentage of COVID-19 deaths that involve very debilitated people in nursing homes. Some states are releasing those numbers, although even then they tend to not be easily accessible – for example, Minnesota, which Scott Johnson of Powerline writes … Continue reading →
Will New York be the comeback kid?
One opinion in the NY Times: The very features that make New York attractive to businesses, workers and tourists — Broadway, the subway system, world-class restaurants, and innumerable cultural institutions — were among the hardest-hit in the pandemic. And they … Continue reading →