Posts by sarcozona
If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist, right?
Your Local Epidemiologist critiques a graph of daily covid case projections: I do disagree with this graph hitting 1 million cases. We don’t have the testing capacity to record this many cases. We will run out of tests, reagents, and plastic. Lab capacity is finite. We would hit a plateau in case reporting, while the […]
We don’t just need better ventilation because of covid
Because while we are investing heavily in vaccination, the sense that the pandemic is going to “end” at some point in the not-to-distant future is leading to an underinvestment in other structural solutions we are going to need – a revolution in filtration and ventilation so that buildings do not readily spread disease and free, […]
Asymptomatic covid is widespread and dangerous
When people get covid but don’t have symptoms, they spread the virus, don’t develop much immunity to future infection, and can get long covid. Most countries have done very limited asymptomatic testing and most research is obviously on symptomatic people, so it’s hard to know how many people this group includes. This meta-analysis summarizes what […]
We have done this to ourselves
The natural truths industry is financed by people, from politicians to CEOs, who know little about the projects they fund. An inverted relationship between researchers and donors has evolved in which the former, much like marketers or advertisers, must make constant promises that they will struggle to keep. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/sceptical-credulity
Treat the symptoms or treat the disease?
Federal candidates must pressure provinces for fertility treatment funding, B.C. advocates say — Read on www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6156760 Coverage for IVF in most parts of Canada is poor and many people are arguing we should fix that. I’m not totally opposed to better funded IVF, but 1) there are WAY higher priorities in our healthcare system and […]
Like building in a floodplain
CBC Lite | Buyers and builders frustrated after being refused insurance for homes near wildfires — Read on www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6153681
Major in something useful!
You go to college and go into a ton of debt so you can have a chance at a good job and then when you don’t get a good job are mocked for your poor choice of majors. The thing is, by the time there’s a formal way for you to learn a field in […]