The death rate from Covid 19 is the number of deaths divided by the number of cases. If you test a lot, find all your infections, the denominator is larger. Your death rate is lower. If you somehow undercount deaths, to hide failures, the numerator is smaller. Death rate is lower. If your icu procedures …
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Avoid These
Airplanes Cruise ships Nursing homes Hospitals Concerts Marathons Public mass transit Shopping malls Any crowded spaces There are two main factors to be aware of. Time and distance. You want to spend as little time as possible in close proximity to other people. In your home with family members practicing avoidance are OK to be …
Memorial Day
Many Americans, tired of shelter in place, tired of pandemic, tired of social distancing, tired of stress, tired of bad news. Will go back to normal. Enjoy a holiday. Try to enjoy life. I don’t blame them. It’s tough. Life is rough. In the US, Covid 19 deaths are rapidly approaching 100,000. Vastly more than …
Best Exercise
What is the best exercise? It is the one you did last. If you walked, ran, swam, stretched, deep breathed, squat, lunge. What ever you do everyday or what every you just did. That was the most beneficial, healthful and best exercise for you. I tend to read a lot and was sucked into to …
Fanboy Fetish
If you love it so much, why don’t you marry it? All around us we see people and their behaviors. Some behaviors, most behaviors fall in the category of normal. And then sometimes we can fall in love or become obsessed. We may be hardwired to repeat thoughts and actions. It is probably an energy …
Head in Sand
To avoid hard truths we can immerse our heads in sand. We will not see or hear. Head in the sand. I feel that we are doing that right now. Ideas of returns to normalcy are fantasies. Economic outlooks in people’s minds right now are memories of three or four months ago. It is hard …
Long Tail
Curve flattened! Strict rules on people’s movements and behaviors has resulted in a flat curve. Locations recording both infections and deaths over time vary. A steep or exponential increase is devastating and generally indicates uncontrolled disease speed. Strict measures to contain virus spread in a population will flatten the curve. Either keep the rates constant, …
Second Wave
If you take an action and the effect can only be seen or detected two weeks later. The action and reaction can seem unconnected. People moving around, gathering, not isolating, not wearing masks, thinking that it’s over, thinking we know what we’re dealing with, thinking that normal behavior is more important, thinking that it will …
Richer Poorer
In today’s economic landscape the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The current global pandemic only amplified this disgusting fact. Mark Zuckerberg, whose wealth is up $1.08 billion in just a day Larry Page (up $956 million) Bill Gates (up $931 million) Sergey Brin (up $919 million) Jeff Bezos (up $907 million) Larry …
Hodge Podge
City, county, state, federal and individual companies are all doing their best to set policy. Pandemic response primarily should prioritize public health. But now, jobs and the economy are starting to drive policy. Without decisive and uniform messaging from the top levels of government we have a confused mixture of response and policy. Confusion is …