Thursday set a new record high number of Covid cases reported in the US since early February. Sadly, that same statement applies to many of the preceding days for the last five weeks due to the rapidly increasing new cases, with Thursday being the first day cases have again exceeded 90,000. Thursday’s final count isn’t …
An extraordinary thing happened in England this week. On Monday 19th, England removed the last of its remaining “lockdown” measures, a move widely criticized as surely leading to a massive increase in new virus cases, and a move that was all the more inexplicable due to the soaring number of new Covid cases, every day, …
The strongest lesson I’ve learned over the past 18 months is that our pandemic is not so much based on the virus as it is on our inability to rationally optimize our response to it. The pervasive idiocy that has tainted every part of our actions, from the most senior political and professional “thought leaders” …
Tomorrow (Monday July 19) sees England triumphantly celebrate “Freedom Day” – as in freedom from the virus and all the restrictions associated with it. We’re unable to congratulate them, however. Their “freedom” is a rather bizarre concept, and some people are more sensibly called it “freedumb”. England’s current rate of infection is higher than every …