The first thing you have to understand is that Covid-19 in China is very different from Covid-19 in the U.S. and other Western nations. It’s the same virus, and in China as elsewhere close proximity of people facilitates its spread. But it’s much harder to contain in the most populous an[...]
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What now, now that soldiers won’t have to get Covid shots?
I’m ex-military. I served in the Vietnam war, then was an Army Reserve instructor. I know all about how military life works. It’s all about teamwork. Nobody accomplishes anything by themselves in military service; the tasks are too big. The mantra is, you look out for your buddies, and t[...]
December 1st, 2022 - 8:24 pm § in Law and Courts
Fake vaccine card seller gets prison
Julie Mazi (photo, left), 41, a Napa, California, naturopathic doctor who sold phony Covid-19 “immunization” pills and fake CDC vaccine cards, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 (read story here). That wasn’t the sole reason for the stiff sen[...]
December 1st, 2022 - 6:36 pm § in Law and Courts
Covid-19 widow suing Dr. Fauci has to prove her case
And that could be very difficult. Leann Dykes, of Kansas City, who lost her husband to Covid-19 in November 2020, before there were vaccines, is suing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health for wrongful death. To hold them liable for his death, she has to prove (a) they were neglige[...]
Politicians shouldn’t make medical decisions
In this article, I will explain why you should trust your doctor, not a politician, for Covid-19 vaccination advice. Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is a smart guy; he graduated from Yale and Harvard Law School. But he has more ambition than character. These days he’s slamming Covid-19 vaccines[...]
October 18th, 2022 - 8:25 pm § in Health
Washington’s safest and sickest places during the pandemic
The San Juan islands, as you’d expect, were the safest place to be during the pandemic. Protected by isolation, cooperative residents, an early mask mandate, and a high vaccination rate, the islands experienced no Covid-19 deaths until January 2022, and only 2 total deaths,* both unvaccinated [...]
Why did Covid-19 kill more Republicans than Democrats?
Multiple academic studies have indicated that Republican were statistically more likely to die of Covid-19 than Democrats. The latest, a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, concludes, “Average excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among Republicans than [...]
September 20th, 2022 - 3:50 pm § in Law and Courts
Going after Covid relief thieves
Federal prosecutors have indicted 47 people who participated in a massive fraud scheme to steal $250 million of Covid relief money, CNN and other news sources reported on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 (see story here). The defendants are charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, bribery, [...]
July 18th, 2022 - 7:47 pm § in Misc.
Arizona led nation in TP panic
Nowadays everything is researched from 13 billion year-old-stars to toilet paper shortages. The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 may have begun in Seattle, where the first U.S. case of Covid-19 was reported, and shoppers here promptly emptied shelves. But this rocket reached its apogee in Phoenix[...]
Florida doctor kicked off state board for advocating kids get Covid shots
Dr. Lisa Gwynn (photo, left), a pediatrician and med school prof, is president of the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (profile here). She also was a director of Florida Healthy Kids Corporation, a state health insurance provider, until she was fired from that board on Wednesday[...]