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Human Experience Mind

What Is the Risk?

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022

As mask mandates are canceled, my wife and I are wondering just what is the real risk out there. The per 100,000 rates on the CDC do not tell me much. I wanted to know how these numbers compared with the U.S. significant health death rates due to heart disease, cancer, injuries, strokes, etc.

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Mind

Republicans Must Hate Seniors

December 13, 2021

Today the U.S. surpassed 800,000 Covid related deaths. This was not surprising to me. What surprised me was that 600,000 of these deaths were among

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Mind

Maybe this is the one we all get.

December 13, 2021

Reuters reported on December 10 that of 43 of the cases of Omicron identified in the U.S., 34 of them were in fully vaccinated people,

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Mind

COVID Thoughts

May 15, 2021August 17, 2021

15% of Americans are certain they will not get vaccinated and 17% say that they probably will not.

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Human Experience Mind

Delta

August 1, 2021August 17, 2021

It is painfully obvious to anyone with a background in evolutionary biology. In biology, the only thing that matters is reproduction. Given a population with

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A Year of COVID

March 11, 2021April 24, 2021

It really is beginning to look like there is light at the end of the tunnel…..barring a really virulent COVID variant.

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COVID and GDP

December 29, 2020January 9, 2021

Update to this article. The Economist distilled my thinking on 12/5/2020: Two factors tied to the pandemic help account for Taiwan’s relative success this year.

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Human Experience

356,000 Dead. 12/16/2020.

December 16, 2020December 19, 2020

The NYT is reporting that while the deaths attributable to corona virus is 303,963, the death rate has been higher than they would be in

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