Lockdowns: Systemic Racism in Action
Lockdown-dependent public health policies to handle COVID-19 represent the most racist public policy since Jim Crow. The systemic racism...
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Bad Public Health Kills: 100,000+ Americans Died not from COVID, but Trying to "Stop the Spread"
"We are on the verge of ringing a giant bell that we don’t know how to un-ring." This was the sober warning delivered by Dr. Michael...
We need a Hippocratic oath for public health officials
The tragedy of the northeast continues to obscure our perceptions of the pandemic, and more bizarrely, to be treated as a playbook for...
Population-Adjusted Comparison of Deaths, Cases & Hospitalizations for All 50 U.S. States-
Decontextualized case numbers are being used to fan hysteria and as justification for keeping children out of schools, and businesses...
565,800: Total Dead if Our National Strategy were to "Crush it like NY"
It is mathematically, and morally indefensible to continue to hold up New York, either as a model for handling coronavirus, or as a...
The Third Wave: Making a Mountain out of a Mole Hill
Dr. Osterholm of University of Minnesota recently commented that the next 6-12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the pandemic. He...
You can't follow "The Science" if you refuse to look at the data
The colossal failure of 7 states to protect their most vulnerable populations hides the broad success of the rest of the U.S. in...
Nearly 60% of U.S. Population at Substantially Greater Risk of Death by Accident, than from COVID-19
In late April and early may, New York State performed a large (15,000 person) seroprevalence survey to attempt to identify the real...
Defining the Flattened Curve: How About the Flu?
One of the great frustrations of many Americans when it comes to COVID-19, are the constantly shifting goal posts. The most egregious of...
Northeast States Should Not be Our Models for Handing Coronavirus: Texas Should.
Remember back in March when we set out to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus? The goal wasn’t to eliminate the disease. The goal...
Focusing on Cases Rather than Mortality in COVID-19 Creates Perverse Incentives
We should demand that our public officials focus on mortality rates. Doing so would force them to try to get a handle on the real extent...
The Real Results of Lockdowns: Protecting the Rich, Infecting the Poor and Minorities?
We desperately need coordinated, on-going seroprevalence testing, especially in places like Massachusetts. The reason is not so that we...