Thoughts on taking it seriously.
This would have a huge impact on policy.
Category Archives: Health
The Social-Distancing Experiment
…has failed.
This reminds me of the old Soviet joke about the kid in a classroom, asking if Marx was the greatest scientist in history. After being assured by the teacher that that was the case, he asked “Well, why didn’t he try this crap on rats first?”
[Update a while later]
Policy and punditry must adapt to new data.
Postmodernism
It’s the latest victim of the plague.
As the old saying goes, it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
The Masque Of Red Death
Thoughts from Lileks on web advertising, the history of miracle cures, and China.
Overmothered Men
America is awash in them. Not just “overmothered” but, more importantly, underfathered. This is also a key part of the sociocultural dysfunction in the black community, because welfare policies encouraged so many black women to marry the government instead of the fathers of their children.
Orange County
A judge has refused to overturn Newsom’s capricious order to shut down its beaches.
Ventilators
Why is JPL building them?
On top of the point that they still have to be mass produced, we now have a surplus, and we’re finding out that in many cases we don’t need them (and may have been killing people with them).
[Update a few minutes later]
Related Twitter thread. Pronation seems to be more effective and safer than ventilators.
Half-Whitmer
Five local businesses have filed suit against her. Good for them.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Are Michigan Republicans growing less supine? One can only hope.
[Update a while later]
Armed protesters flood Lansing as Whitmer attempts to override the legislature.
[Saturday-morning update]
Last link is fixed, sorry.
Bursts Of Exercise
Doing it intermittently throughout the day may be able to undo the damage caused by sitting all day.
De Blasio
The blood on his hands. It’s stiff competition, but he’s probably the worst mayor in America, running its largest city. But then Garcetti is no prize, either.
[Afternoon update]
He threatens to round up Jews who don’t obey his orders.
[Thursday-morning update]
[Bumped]