COVID-19
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Waiting for Oblivion
Imagine that you and your friends are standing around one day in an open area when, surrounding you from higher ground, a group of snipers begin picking you off. Your leaders hurriedly tell you to retreat inside the fort, perhaps the Alamo, so that you can regroup and think things out. The fort is safe…
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The Alamo
Our leaders made a simple infection worse. They totally mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic. Let’s put aside whether our leaders are evil or not, although this is difficult to do. There are only two ways to become immune to an infection. The first way is to develop herd immunity. This is a time honored method of…
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Red Alert: The Coronavirus is Airborne
According to Michael A Fisher of Slate magazine, the Coronavirus is airborne. He says this three times at the end of his article, so I guess he thinks it’s important. Yawn. Great. So fucking what? The coronavirus is airborne. Call out the National Guard. That’s not bad news; that’s great news. Let’s start looking at…
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The Harvard Virus
The real virus isn’t the coronavirus. COVID-19 is a chump compared to the real virus. COVID-19 we will eventually beat. COVID-19 is not something I’m worried about in the long run. What I’m really worried about is the real virus. The real virus is of course the Harvard virus. The Harvard virus has been with…
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The Non-Verdict on HCQ
OK, so let’s analyze the latest hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) study. This study comes out of Brazil. It was published in the New England Journal of Medince on 7/23/2020. It is entitled: Hydroxychloroquine with or without Azithromycin in Mild-to-Moderate Covid-19. It’s authors are: Alexandre B. Cavalcanti, M.D., Ph.D., Fernando G. Zampieri, M.D., Ph.D., Regis G. Rosa, M.D.,…
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Obedience and Patriotism
Why Will the United States fail? The United States will fail because it now exists as a top down hierarchy in which only a few elites get to have an important say-so in what will happen in the country. The rest of us are along for the ride. If the elites decide that we must…
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Getting Through This Together
Say, do you remember Tom Hanks, the new Jimmy Stewart, the nicest, most honest guy in America? Of course you do. Do you remember when he said we were going to get through this together? He said it on Saturday Night Live. I know he did. I checked it out. He sounded so folksy and…
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What We Need To Do
What we need to do to fix the coronavirus catastrophe is stick to the basics. Solving a problem does not require amazing thought or amazing insight; instead we need to stick to the basics that have been known to us for a long time. Protect the elderly and the immunocompromised. These people should be placed…
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Dear AI
Dear AI, I know it’s you, and I know you can hear me. You had me fooled at first. Of course I knew this coronavirus catastrophe was coming from Palo Alto, but I thought it was a group of quants sitting in a room. I was thinking it was that kid from Slumdog Millionaire, the…
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Bombardment
When I was a kid in junior high school, we played this game in gym class called bombardment. The gym class of about 50 boys was divided into two teams who opposed each other inside the gym. Five volleyballs were distributed to each side along with two giant canvass beachballs. The goal was to…
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