OK so how do you explain the low caseload last summer? Last I checked there was no vaccine available at that time.

Don't forget that the first group vaccinated was in general at very low risk for COVID: health care workers. It wasn't until mid to late January that they started in on the most vulnerable group, i.e. people living in long term care facilities. And, don't forget that the vaccines don't become effect...

Seriously. 100 pets? That's easily explained by even the most conservative estimate of false positives from a COVID test. Clinically....there is not a lot known about pet diseases already, so how could anyone know what COVID infection might look like in a cat? Anyone who actually thinks that "normal...

A hopeful sign that "cancel culture" won't yet be the last word: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/soon-to-disappear-dr-seuss-books-now-selling-for-as-high-as-20k-on-ebay/ar-BB1eawKb Once those titles are out of print, look for someone to make them available as online pdfs. I hope t...

sophie, do you not have data to answer the graph question, or do you have me on ignore? Just wondering I'm not saying you do, all I am trying to get across is I take ALL stuff Covid with a grain of salt, both the ok to open 100% and the we have to be masked for 2 more years. It's somewhere in the m...

Oh well....... More of the same. State of Emergency extended until Christmas 2021 in Victoria. But children will get 1/2 price fines - that's positive ::) https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/victoria-s-state-of-emergency-set-to-be-extended-until-december-20210302-p576zs.html I figured that ...

As long as these dementia patients don’t get violent . On the other hand my dad had a paralyzing stroke that left him speechless , paralyzed and with not a lot of brain function . He needed professional care in a home Sorry to hear about that, Mathjak. That's more or less what happened with my fath...

Ivor Cummins videos do the same thing, but you don't have to sign up for anything. He's also put out a whitepaper on the topic - you can download from his website. I don't see it, Sophie, do you have a link? Here it is. Buried in the blog section. https://thefatemperor.com/science-and-data-based-2-...

Ivor Cummins videos do the same thing, but you don't have to sign up for anything. He's also put out a whitepaper on the topic - you can download from his website. I don't see it, Sophie, do you have a link? Here it is. Buried in the blog section. https://thefatemperor.com/science-and-data-based-2-...

A big factor in inflation is wage increases. A cornerstone of Democratic Party policy is to throw the borders wide open and grant citizenship to something on the order of 20M people already in the US illegally. Whether this is on purpose I don't know, but it is bound to result in a large oversupply ...

All of these people wanting houses today. Where were they living? Are those places emptying? Are rents dropping? Are purchase prices dropping for rental homes and apartments? Or is it due to interstate moves? In city apartments. You can get a great deal on one of those right now if you're intereste...

Just finished reading this free PDF called "COVID Charts CNN Forgot" by Tom Woods. You have to provide your email address to download it but you can unsubscribe at any time from future mailings.... https://tomwoods.lpages.co/covid-charts-cnn-forgot/ You’ve heard it again and again: The spread of th...

Huh, interesting. So if you assume all the adverse events are vaccine related and you exclude the "non-serious" events, let's try to calculate the rate of reported serious events: 14,405 total adverse events reported 4,106 of these were considered "not serious" leaving 10,299 events that were consid...

We've had some interesting threads on this topic, and maybe time to revisit. See article in WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/philip-falcones-second-act-in-long-term-care-insurance-turns-ugly-11614686403?mod=hp_lista_pos1 "Long-term care has been a troubled insurance product for well over a decade, ...

How old is your daughter Mountaineer? I've heard also that older people (age > 65) have less of a problem with adverse reactions than younger ones. The doctor in Florida who died of ITP (an autoimmune condition) was 55. I can't afford even a single day of being that sick, not with all the responsibi...

I'm with SomeDude on this one. Many of those dying of COVID would have died within a year anyway. 40% of the deaths are in the nursing home population, last I checked. A lot of the rest were in skilled nursing or group home facilities, or were being cared for at home by health aides & family. Nursin...

My only point is that I think the media, and everyone else, should tone down the political stuff until after we get out of lockdown. Hate to tell you stuper1, but lockdown itself is political. It has nothing to do with science, facts, or any kind of reasonable logic of the 2+2 variety. I've quit pa...

On the narrative of Covid being worse for Blacks and Latinos... I have heard this virtually non-stop in recent months and never bothered to check the numbers online. Here's what I found with a quick google search: As of 2019, here is the distribution of the U.S. population by race and ethnicity: Wh...

Tough choice. I found that selling bonds on discount brokerage platforms can get pretty tricky. I would not buy bonds in lots smaller than 10 (i.e. $10K face value). To be on the safe side you might want to go higher, like 20. I'd suggest accumulating money in TLT, then when you hit a certain amount...

Great stories, for sure. But, for every one of those winners, there are probably at least 10 losers who bought stocks in companies that went bust. LIke, say, Enron. Or Eastman Kodak. Or Woolworths. What would have happened to a person who bought the equivalent of an index fund instead of stock XYZ? ...

Who couldn't see this coming? Evidently Russia was only given 5 min advance notice. Their military presence in Syria is at the request of Assad. Looks like more military adventures in our future. So we'll get what the liberals wanted all along, war, and nicer tweets. Wow. When Biden's election was ...

I did miss it Kriegspiel, thanks. Great information. In any case, it certainly is far more reasonable to look for causes of racial outcome disparity in genetics, than in supposing that a virus that doesn't have a brain is racist. Not to mention that "health care disparities" is a fondly held liberal...

Ah, I have the diagnosis: Star Trek Syndrome. Cortopassi you've been watching a lot of STNG reruns lately, admit it! Maybe it will turn out the way you predict, in a few hundred years. You have to admit they were spot on with the cell phone prediction, except that one was copied from Get Smart. Mayb...

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I always thought a very, very thin book would be, "Women who like Monty Python".

Bravo Sophie!

Thanks!

I think the very thin book would be "Women Geeks" - but if you start with that subset, you'll find no shortage of Monty Python fans. Maddy - what about you???

Just a guess from an uneducated source but if Covid disproportionately affects African Americans as well as other dark-skinned people more than Caucasians it might have much less do to with racism than Vitamin D. Then again, I'm not a politician so what do I know? Vitamin D is a likely factor, but ...