Category Archives: General Science

The Social-Distancing Experiment

…has failed.

This reminds me of the old Soviet joke about the kid in a classroom, asking if Marx was the greatest scientist in history. After being assured by the teacher that that was the case, he asked “Well, why didn’t he try this crap on rats first?”

[Update a while later]

Policy and punditry must adapt to new data.

The Latest Attempts At A Cure

They don’t target the virus; they target the hosts.

Let’s hope it works.

[Update a few minutes later]

And now we have a new vaccine that seems to build antibodies in mice.

As always, faster, please.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Cutting through the fog about the potential cures.

I think that 95% of the media resistance to the idea that hydroxychloraquine would be effective is because Trump said it could be.

[Update a few more minutes later]

More vaccines on the way. Fortunately, as the article points out, this bug is relatively easy to target, more so than the flu. It’s just too bad that we didn’t have a head start on it.