In "Recommended Reading," Biden declares the Covid pandemic over. All the statistics are better since the day he took office -- but even NPR thinks "over" is way too big a word.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," a gratifying indicator of the renewal of free scientific inquiry. On NPR -- yes! on NPR! -- a debate among scientists on Covid (previously not permitted to take place) in which "some say it's now less risky than the flu" (such failure to fear-monger, until recently, was a one-way ticket to the gulag).
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Saturday, September 17, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," a good article pointing out that there is something parents can do (other than justifiably complain) about Covid lockdown-related learning loss in their children.
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Friday, September 16, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," top federal health officials keep lying to the children -- that is, the voters (and scaring them, and shaming them): "Get your omicron-specific Covid booster by Halloween, says Dr. Jha: 'You don’t want to be that person who gives it to your grandma.'"
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Thursday, September 15, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," the 2021 Census Bureau is out: "Between 2019 and 2021, the number of people primarily working from home tripled from 5.7% (roughly 9 million people) to 17.9% (27.6 million people), according to new 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates released today..."
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," the self-described quants at 538 have declared victory over Monkeypox. "Thanks to public health and a little luck, this disease didn’t become a pandemic." No mention of the reality that it was never going to become one -- the only pandemic involved was a thought-contagion of fear-mongering. Public health had nothing to do with it.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," an SSRN paper in which a panel of academics looks at the ethical case against university vaccine mandates. Read the whole thing, but here's the money from the abstract: "University booster mandates are unethical because: 1) no formal risk-benefit assessment exists for this age group; 2) vaccine mandates may result in a net expected harm to individual young people; 3) mandates are not proportionate: expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given the modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission; 4) US mandates violate the reciprocity principle because rare serious vaccine-related harms will not be reliably compensated due to gaps in current vaccine injury schemes; and 5) mandates create wider social harms."
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Monday, September 12, 2022
In "Recommended Reading," a breathless story about "novids" -- those exceptional people who don't get Covid, and supposedly hold the key to saving us all. But wait, the reality is that most people don't get Covid. They are not exceptional at all (they just get less media coverage).
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Sunday, September 11, 2022
We're seeing no mention of what today commemorates. Well, we haven't forgotten.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022
The supra-exponential spread of Covid infections in Japan has abated now -- it's merely exponential. It's sub-exponential literally everywhere else in the world now.