Health and Sanity category archive
The Epidemiologist and Human Sacrifice 0
Dr. Mario Molina takes a look at the “herd immunity” snake oil being embraced by the Trump administration and does the math. A snippet (emphasis added):
Moreover, to achieve herd immunity, 70-90% of the community must be infected and develop resistance to the disease. In the United States that would mean over 200 million Americans would have to be infected with the virus. With a 1% mortality rate, which is optimistic (some researchers peg the mortality rate closer to 3%), that means that over 2 million people would die . . . .
Maskless Marauders 0
A physician and professor of medicine who lost his own father to COVID-19 before it was recognized for what it is struggles to understand the maskless marauders. A snippet:
Maskless Marauders 2
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times finds a succinct and briefly stated analogy with which to convey his request to the reading public without need of excess and superfluous verbiage.
Maskless Marauders 0
In related news, Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, try to understand the maskless.
The Epidemiologist Is Released . . . 0
. . . and promptly writes a prescription. Side effects include unfeeling callousness with a lack of empathy.
“I’m so glad that he appears to be doing well, that he has doctors who can give him experimental drugs that aren’t available to the masses,” Sedlacek said. “For the rest of us, who are trying to protect ourselves, that behavior is an embarrassment.”
COVID-19 has infected about 7.5 million Americans, leaving more than 210,000 dead and millions more unemployed, including Sedlacek. The U.S. has less than 5% of the globe’s population but more than 20% of the reported deaths.
More side effects at the link.
The Stock Market Is Not the Economy, “The Happiest Place on Earth” Dept. 0
The caller, a Disneyland “cast member,” calls to discuss Disneyland’s laying off 28,000 employees. The caller’s voice fades several times and the hosts have to ask him to repeat himself, but I think, even with the audio issues, his story is worth the few minutes of your time.
The Privatization Scam, There’s No Money To Be Made from the Public Good Dept. 0
David and Richard Wolff discuss the economic reasons why capitalism failed to protect the public from the pandemic.
All Hallows Eve in These Viral Times 0
Stephanie Hayes re-imagines a haunted house for today.