Today the US surpassed 2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 113,000 deaths. That’s like having all the people in New Mexico get infected and almost all of the people in Farmington die.
Tag: COVID-19
June 9, 2020 – Walking Backwards
The W.H.O. walked back an earlier assertion that asymptomatic transmission is “very rare.” Turns out that people who have COVID-19 but are asymptomatic can spread the virus after all. So all those people who felt just fine and didn’t bother with masks or physical distancing might have been making other people sick all this time….
June 8, 2020 – Has the Shutdown Been Worth It?
Has the Shutdown Been Worth It? It’s not a yes-or-no question. At what point did we stop being able to engage in complex thinking? It seems that every conversation about the pandemic (and health, and politics ,and economics, and, and, and) gets boiled down to an either-or choice. You either agree that COVID-19 is a…
June 4, 2020 – No. We Shouldn’t Be Flying
Governor Ige is getting crap for not saying when tourism in Hawaii will open back up. He doesn’t deserve this. The vast majority of visitors to Hawaii will arrive in airplanes and at this moment there are no agreed-upon health standards for air travel to counter the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19. So I agree…
June 3, 2020 – Wasting Time on Hydroxy
Well, no s##t Sherlock. We already knew this. What a waste of time and resources. Because Trump was touting hydroxychloroquine as possibly effective against COVID-19, going so far as to claim he had taken it himself, precious time, energy, and resources were wasted on a randomized clinical trial to prove what was already known. The…
