This piece in the New York Times is a few days old but I’m just getting around to posting it. It’s a useful resetting of expectations vis a vis Covid and what comes next for… Read More »We May Never Reach Herd Immunity
Everything you ever wanted to know about the origins of a virus that’s killed more than three million people In the piece below, the science writer Nicholas Wade argues that in the early days of… Read More »Did Conflicted Western Scientists Obscure the Truth about Covid’s Origins?
We are in the era of mass delusions. Millions of Americans believe that antifa planned the January 6th attack. Thousands of day traders believe that Elon Musk is looking out for them. Millions of GOP voters swear to defend America’s “free markets”, though today this economic phenomenon can only be seen in museums. Good grief, a not insignificant number of people apparently buy SPAC IPOs! But there’s another mass delusion which no one is talking about. Many Americans apparently believe that the shareholders of US airlines must be bailed out in order to ensure that the industry is able (eventually) to support a strong US economic recovery. This is a lie. Yes, we need a viable airline industry to enable a strong and sustainable economic recovery. No, we don’t have to bribe airline CEOs and stock holders to achieve this. The fact that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are equally deluded in their support for airline CEO bailouts (having approved ~ $60 billion and counting) makes this a bipartisan hallucination. Airline CEOs are pushing a big lie in order to rip off American taxpayers. Back in the day, Republicans called women with children who needed help, “welfare queens”. Well, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Airline CEOs who tell the big lie that keeping them in their jobs and keeping their companies out of bankruptcy is in the best interests of taxpayers are, truly, welfare queens of the coronavirus pandemic.
We May Never Know the Truth I know nothing about coronaviruses but I’ve studied China and the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) for decades, traveling there dozens of times, and met with many government officials. If… Read More »Did Covid-19 Originate in a Chinese Lab? Possibly. Here’s the Evidence
To my fellow citizens of North Dakota. Not the ones who live in Fargo but the ones who live in places that are so far out in the sticks it doesn’t really have a name.… Read More »New York City Isn’t DEAD. New York City Is INSIDE.
Hi Cruise Ship! I Love You! Wait For Me! Cruise Ships Can’t Sail. But the Behemoth Vessels Are Still a Draw. Empty cruise liners idling in the English Channel have become a tourist destination of… Read More »Landlocked Cruise Ship Fans Go Slowly Insane
Long-Term Care: We’re All Going to Die and Private Insurance Won’t Save Us About one-quarter of all US coronavirus deaths have been nursing home residents. Baby boomers, that enormous post-war cohort, is beginning what will… Read More »Long-Term Care: Only for the Wealthy
Ancient Egyptian’s suffered seven years of drought, famine, and pestilence. But even they never dreamed it could get this bad… The Washington Post reported today: The Swiss pastime of yodeling appears to have led to… Read More »WEAR A MASK, SOCIAL DISTANCE, AND PLEASE NO YODELING