Category Archives: Media Criticism

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.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Technology and Society, War Commentary

The Captain Of That Carrier

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Why he had to be relieved of duty.

What struck us as particularly off in the captain’s letter was his statement: “We are not at war.” He added that “sailors do not need to die” and that “if we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our sailors.” The Navy, though, doesn’t need to be instructed on the value of its own sailors. Plus, too, under our system it’s not carrier captains who decide whether we’re at war.

The most important asset is not the crew, but the ship, and the crew must be ready to be sacrificed for the mission. I wrote a book about that.