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Coronavirus Update IX: End Game—Will Politicians Double Down On Fear Or End It?

All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…

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Mini-Coronavirus Update: The Blamestorm Is On Its Way: Fauci Walkback

Apologies to regular readers, but I got real busy the past few days. So just a mini-update on our model, which will be useful for making a couple of small…

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More On Coronavirus Model Accuracy

This post is mainly for me to have a place to collect model accuracy stories. If you see ones I missed, please add them to the comments. https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1247666625958023168 Yesterday I…

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Coronavirus Update VIII: Blown Forecasts & Peak Performance

All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…

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Coronavirus Update VII — We’ve Got Models (Update)

All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, and…

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Stay Inside Or Die!

Main coronavirus update on Tuesday, as usual. To keep that a reasonable size, I'm moving material on the overreaction here, in our Week In Doom fashion. Item Former UK Prime…

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Perspective On The Coronavirus: Sanity Check

Regular readers: no post on Saturday. Here's a nifty plot showing the percent of the world's population rubbed out by various epidemics. The percent population makes sense as a natural…

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Curse of The MINIMAX!

Make a list of things that might happen. Label this list X_1, X_2, X_3, ..., X_p, where "p" is for possibility. Each of these X_i is a thing that can…

hudbwu on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 18, 2024
Of course, the abolition of slavery was something the (Catholic) Church worked basically since day 1. And I'm pretty sure…
Cary D Cotterman on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 18, 2024
I know people (coincidentally all Democrats) who are constantly "masking up", testing, and getting boosted, who claim they've had covid…
Rudolph Harrier on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 18, 2024
This will last until they need an outbreak for a distraction and some other (minor) disease has naturally spread before…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 18, 2024
Covid the "Boogerman of Maladies"? -- you jest Briggs but it's no joking matter. I had the sniffles once and…
Pk on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 18, 2024
I also heard on local radio that Covid is surging again. The reporter cited waste water analysis as how the…