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The government-mandated shutdown of business, and the massive drop in economic activity it is causing, may actually do more harm to the United States than the coronavirus itself. Early estimates suggest the U.S. economy will contract at a staggering 20% annualized rate in the second quarter, and the number may move even higher. Despite multiple […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEpkUawiLKA&t=0s Doing something every day to bring happiness to someone else
Friends, Perhaps the concern about the Left’s seeming superiority in storytelling could be addressed by renewed appreciation for the traditional stories of Western culture, including fairy tales and mythology. It occurs to me that capitalism is resonant with The Round Table, a beautiful symbol of equality of opportunity. King Arthur wanted the table to be […]
In perhaps the most devastating impact of the COVID-19 novel Coronavirus pandemic, Americans say the contagion brought to a complete halt their plans to eventually meet and get to know their neighbors.“We were just saying last month that we should have them over for dinner or something,” said one township woman, whose neighbors moved in […]
Great news from that Whittle guy!
The big news this week – and for the foreseeable future – is still the 800 lb. Panda in the room – the FluManChu. I don’t know about you, but I’ve washed my hands so many times I’m starting to see my 8th grade History notes. And don’t get me started on my vanishing 401(k) because I’m […]
In these troubling and testing times I thought I would share with you something special. A service at the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace. The Palace is closed to visitors and Chapel is not open to its usual congregation, and so the Chaplain, the Revd. Canon Anthony Howe, decided to record this morning’s Sung […]
Just dipped back into “12 Rules for Life,” by Jordan B. Peterson after several month’s neglect. He talks about thinking, an act which most of us fail to do most of the time. Thinking is listening to yourself. It’s difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then […]
It’s odd how the death of a famous figure you can affect you. Maybe you’d not thought of them for years but the news that they’ve gone on brings them back to your mind and suddenly they swim into focus, bringing back memories and making you realise what impact they had on your life. I […]
When I saw the WHO’s Tedros Adhnom making such a thing about the “approved” specific name for the coronavirus, Covid-19, I thought little of it. When I saw the MSM losing their little minds about the use of the terms Wuhan, or Chinese Flu, the penny dropped. The government in Beijing is highly adept at […]
Apparently someone has done a statistical analyisis indicating that widespread quarantines are precisely the wrong way to go. Denninger mentions it here, but I don’t see a link to the study itself. Maybe Lord Bios could give his opinion.
Then there’s this from a Bayesian analysis including retrospective lookback at 1918/19. It concludes that all you do by restricting low-risk individuals is spreading out the rate of death and the total number of deaths actually increases. Why? Because the time a high-risk individual has exposed to the potential of getting the bug goes up and if he or she gets it, the odds of it ending badly are what they are, and suppressing low-risk people means the more-severe strains become dominant.
If the virus is spread freely, the mild and asymptomatic strains, with the least viral load, will naturally be spread most widely and become far more prevalent than the more severe strains. Unless, that is, the severe strains are hot-housed in hospitals, whilst the low-risk (young), uninfected part of the population is restrained from getting immune to the mild form by being sent home from school, university or work (Wave 1). Historically, such interventions generate a far worse Wave 2 once the interventions are relaxed, because the second time around, the severe strain is dominant.
I’ve heard youtubers complain that their channels or videos get suppressed for mentioning the virus. Have you guys seen that?
Looks like Gov. Newsom referenced this in his order.
Some Anglo-Saxon culture, and comfort… Dear friends. The current situation with the virus made me remember of a 10th century poem in Old English, or Anglo-Saxon. It’s called Deor, after the scop (pron. ‘shop’), or bard, who narrates it. I thought I’d share it with you as it is very apt for the situation we […]
The Mexican Mercado down the street from my house had no corn tortillas in the refrigerated case; plenty of flour tortillas; we Aztecs prefer corn. I asked the clerk at the register if corn tortillas would arrive tomorrow. She fished around underneath the counter and held up two packages of corn tortillas. One package held […]