MsBrenda

This is not rocket science. Either a month long real lockdown followed by extensive testing/contact tracing across the globe or an effective vaccine that almost everyone gets. Otherwise this is just gonna be rolling hotspots (possibly seasonal) and economic disaster indefinitely until multitudes of infections and deaths result in high population immunity.

COVID-19 (Viral Load) Testing

16 April, Trump claimed we’ve now performed more tests per capita than South Korea. Incredulous, I checked, and sure enough he’s not significantly incorrect. (See screen captures of world testing data, below.) It’s a good milestone, but reaching it this late in the pandemic’s history is (imo) a major stain on Trump’s…[Read more]

COVID-19

Again, excerpting from wikipedia:

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus strain that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness. It is colloquially known as the coronavirus, and was previously referred to by its provisional name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

I’m on a…[Read more]

(From Rats Learn to drive tiny cars in order to collect food. As a rat lover, I think this video is cute and funny. It also reminds me of Jaak, the rat tickler scientist.)

Thanks Reg, that is a good article with good links, including one to the book. I’ll steal another link from there to a video on the famous and only meeting the four had together:

There is a book out too.

Pretty long. Just take a half-day off from work. Or skip a few soap opera episodes.