Simone Gold (photo, right) is a Stanford-educated doctor, lawyer, purveyor of false Covid-19 conspiracy theories and quack cures, and insurrectionist. She’ll probably be pissed at me for not putting “Dr.” in front of her name. (When she pleaded guilty, “Never one to let peopl[...]
Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
March 3rd, 2022 - 7:32 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
CDC releases 90% of Americans from mask tyranny
“Data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Covid-19 levels have dropped significantly enough that more than 90 percent of people in the United States can go without masks,” NBC News reported on Thursday, March 3, 2022 (read story here). “Th[...]
More coffin nails in “lab leak” theory
Two new studies “offer further evidence that the coronavirus originated in animals and spread to humans in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China,” CNN reported on Saturday, February 26, 2022 (read story here). These are preprint studies, not yet peer-reviewed or publishe[...]
February 18th, 2022 - 8:14 pm § in Health
Do Canada’s stricter Covid-19 rules make a difference?
“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]
Canada’s approach to Covid-19 is different and better
“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]
February 8th, 2022 - 4:22 pm § in Health
Does a mask protect you if no one else wears one?
Less, but yes. With the Omicron wave subsiding, and infection rates declining, mask mandates could vanish soon. The virus certainly hasn’t vanished, and is unlikely to anytime soon, if ever. But many Americans are weary of caution, and want to pretend life is normal, even if it can’t be.[...]
Joe Rogan: Guilty or innocent?
Podcaster Joe Rogan (profile here), who self-identifies as a libertarian and free speech advocate, claims “I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people and have interesting conversations.” A lot of people beg to differ, including “270 scientists, physi[...]
Truckers behaving badly
“What started as a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates has snowballed into a blockade in the Canadian capital and the obstruction of a US-Canadian border crossing,” CNN reported on Monday, January 31, 2022. But that’s not the half of it. Their behavior has been unruly a[...]
This is what happens when you don’t fact-check
First, some background: “Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, has been a vocal critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci.” (Per CNN story here.) So it’s not surprising he went off half-cocked, but this one is a doozy. (Also relevant to this story, while Massie is an MIT grad in electrical[...]
Will any Russians be left to invade Ukraine?
“MOSCOW — Russia’s daily count of new coronavirus infections surged to more than 121,000 on Sunday, an eightfold increase compared with the beginning of the month as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads through the country,” ABC News reported on Sunday, January 30, 2[...]