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

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

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

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

  This week saw what I believe may be an official first in people’s interactions with Covid.  One unfortunate sufferer was infected with two different Covid variants, simultaneously.  She died, although it is not known whether this was because of the double dose being more

  It has been a relatively quiet Friday/Saturday/Sunday for Covid news – although part of the “quietness” is perhaps my feeling a bit saturated with repeating and repetitive stories about surging numbers of new cases all around the US and world, which I’ll spare you

We’re living in a strange and bizarre world where countries are ignoring their growing Covid case numbers and claiming to have won the Covid battle.  The UK continues to record ever-higher number of new Covid cases, but is refusing to budge from a re-opening timetable

I hope you had a fun day today, and that Covid won’t end up having been an unwelcome guest at any of your celebrations.  I am somewhere between bemused and worried at how our nation has almost completely developed selective blindness or is just willfully

The more things change, the more they remain the same. That’s not an adage we want to see in the context of the global fight against the Covid pandemic, is it.  But, truly, it seems to be alarmingly close to the truth, with Covid case