Tag: pandemic
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Pandemic on the Easy Setting
I keep telling people that this whole Covid-19 thing is pandemic on the easy setting. I’ve been interested in infectious diseases for a very long time, and frankly we have been overdue for a pandemic in this era of global travel for quite some time now. That it has been so mild and non-lethal…
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Plandemic Debunking
I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories. For one thing, they buck human nature. You know the cliche – two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. Study criminology for any length of time and you’ll find that the vast majority of criminals undo their own attempts to conceal their crime…
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Data Not Collected is Not Data
In science, data is king. However, the problem with this becomes quickly evident to anyone clever enough to start asking questions like ‘what data? How was it collected? When? Where?’ and so on and so forth. Incomplete or incorrect data, or simply the lack of any data, means that the hypothesis cannot be supported,…
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Coronavirus: Don’t Panic
I’ve been pinged severally about the coronavirus in the last week or so, and I’m mostly going to point you at expert articles here, but first: there is no need for panic. This is certainly not the outbreak of 1918 flu, and while the projections do show a likely global spread, it’s not going…
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Viruses that go Bump in the Night
I was reminded of John Ringo’s essay on the zombie apocalypse during microbiology lab today. We watched a video on SARS, and one of the questions asked was “did we overreact to SARS?” The answer, of course, is no, and a little bit, yes. The possibility of a global pandemic (yes, I know that’s redundant)…