If it was man made, they would have made it better." Just because a virus escapes containment in a research lab doesn't necessarily mean it was engineered. I imagine a level-4 infectious disease research facility has lots of samples for study. IMO it makes for a plausible conspiracy theory mostly b...

Feel free to share any conspiracy theories you have, or have heard about, that relate to the novel coronavirus in some way. The most plausible one to me is that the virus leaked from the Wuhan lab when scientists there sold lab animals for food in local wet markets. https://www.marketwatch.com/stor...

We got a lot of engineers here, right? Why even give the impression this is doable in a quick fashion? Even if you took an existing design, you still have to source and create parts, PCBs, make tooling, test fixtures, etc, etc. Engineer here. The car manufacturers are not necessarily talking about ...

All models are wrong, some are useful Sure. Without getting into the blame game, I'll simply point out that evidence is mounting that things aren't nearly as bad as we've been led to believe. As new information invalidates old models, life could get back to normal faster than many people are predic...

The Scientist Whose Doomsday Pandemic Model Predicted Armageddon Just Walked Back The Apocalyptic Predictions https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/26/the-scientist-whose-doomsday-pandemic-model-predicted-armageddon-just-walked-back-the-apocalyptic-predictions/#disqus_thread I saw that. The most egregi...

Apologies if this has been posted already, but here's a (potential) positive development: A recent Oxford study estimates more than half of the UK has already been infected. That sounds bad, but (if true) is actually great news: According to a team from Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious D...

That's really great to hear you're recovering. You earned that shirt! I also appreciate you updating us along the way.

Apologies if this has been posted already, but here's a (potential) positive development: A recent Oxford study estimates more than half of the UK has already been infected. That sounds bad, but (if true) is actually great news: According to a team from Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Di...

I don't think there are "untouched" places in the USA where an Easter restart would be a good idea. If not Crane County, then where? That horse left the barn weeks ago. You don't have to be completely virus-free to avoid a shutdown with widespread masks, testing, and treatments. It will take time, ...

Whether that turns out to be the plan or not, specific lockdowns for troubled metropoles makes good sense. Yep. BTW, some states are already catching on and placing restrictions on travelers from New York City. I expect more will get on board soon enough and potentially even forbid travel from cert...

What’s all this about an Easter plan? Is that a bit early to go back to work? I’m interested in reading the details. My observation is that too many people fall into the fallacy that the whole country must surely be just like the neighborhood outside their own door. Media personalities are not immu...

“I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-trump-closed/2020/03/13/a70de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html A rebuttal: "No, the White House didn't 'dissolve' its pandemic response office. I was there." (The original w...