The CDC now acknowledges a death rate for coronavirus of 1%, a grudging admission that its earlier death rate estimates of 4% and higher vastly overstated the risk from this disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-covid-death.html But with additional antibody testing I have no doubt that that number will fall further, to a level comparable to common flu. https://www.biospace.com/article/multiple-studies-suggest-covid-19-mortality-rate-may-be-lower-than-expected-/ […]
My Dear Friend, (Name withheld on request.) It seems we’ve come full circle since the Kavanagh nomination ripped the wheels off our initial friendly discussions. It’s easy to get along when the only disagreements are over favorite rock guitarists and classic cars. Looking back, our differences over the Blasey-Ford accusations nearly nipped our friendship in […]
Nearly a month ago I proposed the then novel theory that the officially reported coronavirus death rate was exaggerating the actual lethality of the Wuhan Flu by some order of magnitude due to an artifact in the data. Specifically, I theorized that limitations in testing for this disease, including deficiencies in the available testing methods […]
My search for coronavirus artifacts began in the vast sedimentary sludge of late Holocene reporting from national health centers around the world. (That is, not quite a week ago.) I noted, for example, how the very high death rate from the virus in Italy contrasted with the very low death rate in Germany. Specifically, 8% […]
In the course of a recent internet chat about Donald Trump, someone raised an interesting question. What single attribute of our president best encourages those of us who support him while most infuriating those who hate him? Several suggestions were offered, but the one that most impressed me was elegantly simple. The writer identified in […]
The Democrats are crowing now, claiming that the inspector general did not find any evidence of bias in his investigation of the FBI’s handling of certain warrant applications to the FISA Court. Is there any logic behind their celebrations? It is to be expected that they fail to acknowledge he was speaking only of “testimonial […]
If you allow your mind to travel back through time to the arrival of Columbus in the new world, you are nearly half way to the laying of the foundation for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. The first article linked below was written the day before yesterday’s Notre Dame Cathedral fire. In view […]
Nothing was quite so unimportant to the founders of this nation as the independence of the Department of Justice. If I close my eyes, I can almost see the determined set of James Madison’s jaw as he etches into the stone of our Constitution those memorable words which embodied what he called his passionate “regard […]
As the lead singer for the punk rock band “Dead Kennedys” once put it, “if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street…, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.” Today’s FBI seems to have taken that counsel very […]
How often have you heard that assault rifles should be banned because they are not intended for hunting? Invariably, in the face of that argument some well-intentioned patriot will attempt to persuade us that such weapons are sometimes used to hunt. And that is true only in the sense that one might attempt to eat […]