People with Apple watches could be monitoring their oxygen levels, but the regulators require that the ability be disabled for users. This is classic regulatory capture by the industry.
Category Archives: Health
Recurring Infections
The bad news is that WHO says that there is no evidence that getting an infection prevents a recurrence. The good news is that WHO has not been a particularly reliable source of information.
[Update a while later]
They’ve retracted:
Effects Of Lockdown
Two California doctors say that it doesn’t reduce the number of deaths.
Of course, since they’re not from coastal California, they’re not really California doctors.
Nutrition Labels
Why there’s a frozen-fry shortage.
Nutrition labels, to the degree that they provide calorie information, are worse than useless, because calorie counting is stupid. FDA should not only suspend them, but eliminate them.
Ventilators
Nearly everyone put on them in New York died.
So much for “life saving.” Of course, the problem is that by the time it’s so extreme that they decide to put you on one, it’s probably too late. But this shows that the ventilator panic was probably pointless.
We’re learning rapidly how to deal with this, but we’ve unfortunately lost a lot of unwilling guinea pigs. It reminds me of what I say in the book: Every aviation regulation is written in blood. People always have to die or be injured for us to learn.
Biden And China
He’s taking flak from the Left for his latest idiotic campaign tactic. Hilarious.
You’d think by now that people would realize that if you want to judge Trump’s actions toward another country, you have to actually observe what he does, not listen to what he says about their leaders. But they’re idiots.
Half-Whitmer
The Michigan legislature has called a special session to strip her of her emergency powers, which she has been abusing.
Pulse Oximeters
Seems like a good idea to keep one on hand. Probably unnecessary until you feels symptoms, but you wouldn’t want to need one and find them out of stock at CVS.
Nicotine?
Hey, if it saves one life. The irony is that one of the distractions we had as this crisis was happening (besides impeachment) was the moral panic over the crucial national issue of vaping.
My concern would be getting addicted as a result of this, but if it’s for a short period of time, it might not be a problem.