My Corona: Authorities, Bureaucracies, and the Illusions of Safety
I understand that COVID19 is scary. I’m not thrilled about it either. But I don’t trust these guys and gals saying “I’m from the government, I’m here to help you”.
Tagged: Public Health
Thursday Throughput: Zebra Stripes and Supernovae
Yes, there are stars within a few hundred light years that will go supernova. No, we don’t have any way of predicting when it will happen.
Thursday Throughput
No, a quarter of millennials are not experiencing PTSD because of the election. A few months after the election, college students were still a bit stressed by it. Which makes them like everyone else.
Daniel Summers: Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just made pediatricians’ jobs a lot harder
If enough parents refuse to have their children vaccinated, the herd immunity that protects the nation as a whole will wane. There were a record number of measles cases in 2014, the majority in people who were unvaccinated. Does anyone want to share the experience of the Spanish parents whose unvaccinated son died of diphtheria in 2015, after that country had been free of the disease since 1986?
But I Fear
Burt Likko is mildly surprised that the political response didn’t include confiscation of law-abiding citizens’ hunting rifles and imposition of an abortion quota.
Coca-Cola: Saving the World From its Own Practices
Coca Cola is partnering to deliver clean drinking water to small villages around the world, even as it steals water from others.
