This is grim news.
The destruction of the economy will kill many more people than the virus will.
Category Archives: Health
“Social Distancing”
…is snake oil, not science.
I find few things more annoying than morons who couldn’t integrate a function or even solve a quadratic equation to save their lives telling me that if I disagree with them on climate, or anything, that I am “denying science.”
Our Weird New Behavior
Herd Immunity
Is the percentage needed for it lower than was thought? If so, this is good news.
[Update a while later]
“‘Herd immunity’ is misleading; what we need is augmented immunity.”
Unbearable Truths
…about our current political predicament.
I think that national debt and budget deficit is another.
Bob Zimmerman
We’ve been wearing one, not because we really think it keeps us or others safer, but simply out of current social etiquette. And we only do it inside, not when simply outside.
[Update a while later]
People are silently withdrawing their consent from the State.
Some not-so-silently, too.
[Update Saturday morning]
Mask shaming is just the latest form of virtue signaling.
[Bumped]
Vitamin D
…seems to play a role in coronavirus response. I take supplements, but the cruel irony of the stay-at-home orders is that, for many, it makes it hard for the body to produce it naturally.
The Cruel “New Normal”
How America arrived at the dumb reopening.
Tesla
Elon has had enough of California, at least when it comes to making cars, if not rockets.