…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.”
Category Archives: Social Commentary
It’s Destruction, All Right
…but is it creative? I think it was much more damaging than it needed to be, and will continue to be so.
[Wednesday-morning update]
The poorest counties are the hardest hit by the lock downs.
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.
Hygienic Fascism
Making the world a “safe space,” but at what cost?
Markets Work
…even in crisis, if you let them. Laws against “price gouging” are economically insane.
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]
Lord Of The Flies
Why it should no longer be required reading (to the degree that it is).
I remember reading it as a kid, and it didn’t read true to me in the same way that Animal Farm did.
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.