...wrong. The post is pretty much finished (didn't need much to finish it) and will be posted shortly. Rather hot on the heels of this post, but there you go!...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Shedder
For some time, Dr No has been bothered by the fact that some people with covid continue to have positive PCR tests long after they can be considered ill and...
2020 Tin Foil Hats
Is wearing a facemask against covid-19 a curious, curious in that the intent is to keep the danger in rather than out, variant of the tin foil hat? Both are...
Trumpdemics
That Trump gets it but Halfcock Hancock doesn’t is a long way south of bizarre, but there it is. A trumpdemic is an artefactual spike in covid-19 cases caused simply...
A Reckoning for the Coffin Counters
Happy is the epidemiologist who works on deaths. This observation arises because death is the ultimate hard end point (the patient is either dead or alive), and usually there is...
Play Time Like Prison Camp
Another breakfast, another Today programme, more Diddledum and Diddledee. The latter, Martha “I’ve got a beehive in my bra, more on that story later” Kearney, has refined her primary distraction...
The Needle and the Damage Done
“Even the perpetrators had to go one step at a time, completing each step before they realised that the next one was possible.” Clive James, Review of Holocaust (BBC1), 1978...
Naturality and Familiarity
...debunking covid confirmation bias) none have won, and none shall have prizes ("The ‘big story’ of this paper, then, is that there is no ‘big story’ to be told here.")...
Winter Waves
...There is one paper (abstract only) from 2002 that looked (via postal questionnaires, so possible bias+++) at rates in one health authority area (Bolton) for the three winters from 1997/98...