Covid-19 Diary : Thursday February 24, 2022
It is extraordinary to see the way that the people – the politicians – who bleated the loudest about “following the science” are now following it into strange places. For example, in England, the …
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Covid-19 Diary : Sunday February 20, 2022
Scotland has decided it will stop releasing Covid statistics showing the different hospitalization and death rates based on whether patients have been vaccinated or not. Public Health Scotland described the statistics as “very simple”, …
Covid-19 Diary : Thursday February 17, 2022
The trucker protests against vaccine mandates continue in Canada, and have been echoed here and in other countries too. I noted an interesting comment – many tens of thousands of truckers are said to …
Covid-19 Diary : Sunday February 13, 2022
One of the side effects of the intense controversies over issues that should be unemotional and factual – ie, things like Covid vaccines and treatments – is what I perceive to be a reluctance …
Covid-19 Diary : Thursday February 10, 2022
“The science has changed”. That’s a statement being expressed way too often at present. That is of course a nonsense statement. Science doesn’t change. Our understanding of science might change, but not the …
Covid-19 Diary : Sunday February 6, 2022
There’s been growing pressure on Spotify to deplatform Joe Rogan. Ostensibly this is due to his imagined sin of daring to invite two impeccably credentialed experts onto his show to talk about Covid. One …
Covid-19 Diary : Thursday February 3, 2022
This is going to be one of the last Covid diary entries I write, assuming no major new developments or changes in the future. I never, ever, anticipated, now two years ago, that I’d …
Covid-19 Diary : Sunday 30 January 2022
There have been several articles now about the new “stealth” version of Omicron becoming more prevalent, in the US and elsewhere in the world. While it is still early days in understanding the implication …
Covid-19 Diary : Thursday 27 January, 2022
The CDC has been criticized for its self-isolation guidelines, which reduced the period of quarantine needed for people who test positive for Covid, and allow people to clear out of quarantine without the need …
Covid-19 Diary : Sunday 23 January 2022
I remember, one time, eating dinner in a restaurant with a friend. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted something unusual going on at a nearby table where a man and his …
Covid-19 Diary : Thursday 20 January, 2022
The new “order your free Covid tests” website astonished everyone by going live a day early. It turns out to be a front-end into the USPS website – the USPS does the address verification and …
Covid-19 Diary : Sunday 16 January 2022
Yesterday evening (Saturday) I went to my first concert since the start of the virus. The concert hall was requiring all attendees to be vaccinated and to show ID. I noticed some people had …
