Category Archives: Media Criticism

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Space, Technology and Society

Artemis Alternatives

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Plus, it considers only the extra $35B that NASA wants for Artemis, while ignoring the money hemorrhaging of SLS.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

The Suburban Stasi

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Yes, this makes me want to go out for a drive just as a big FU to der Staat.

[Update a few minutes later]

Related: I’m glad I don’t live in the new police state of Los Angeles.

These businesses should file suit on Constitutional grounds: There is no law against doing business, even in Los Angeles.

[Update while later]

Everyone jumps off bridges after following government guidelines to jump off bridges.

Business, Economics, Health, Mathematics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary

Data And Numbers

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Where are we really with the virus?

Note that (as is often the case with healthcare statistics) different countries are keeping books differently, making it difficult to compare. I continue to believe that the fatality rate will ultimately end up being far below one percent.

[Update early afternoon]

A lot of links from Instapundit. Things are looking better than the models. One I found of interest is that if we can believe Chinese data, four out of five cases are asymptomatic.

Education, Health, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

The News Media

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No other institution has failed the public worse. Which is pretty sad, considering the competition.

[Update mid afternoon]

The media lied, people died. And this was driven purely by Trump derangement. If he said something might be useful, it couldn’t possibly be.

[Update a few minutes later]

Great. It may be that the virus can spread through normal breathing. I don’t know; seems like it would be spreading much faster if that was the case. But we continue to suffer from a lack of data.