Health and Sanity category archive
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It’s also poor public health policy.
Witness what’s happening in the Dakotas, where the populace and the governments at state and local levels have repeatedly turned blind eyes to the pandemic:
“I think the hardest thing to watch is that people are still looking for something else and a magic answer and they do not want to believe covid is real,” Doering told CNN in an interview Monday.
“Their last dying words are ‘this can’t be happening, it’s not real,'” Doering said, adding that some patients prefer to believe that they have pneumonia or other diseases rather than covid-19, despite seeing their positive test results.
More disquieting tales of denial at the link.
Maskless Marauders 0
At the Hartford Courant, Bonny Horwitz tries to wrap her mind around the maskless. A snippet:
Aside:
Someone I know has recently recovered from a two-week struggle with COVID-19. He says the doctors called it a “mild” case. He made it clear that it didn’t feel all that mild while he had it. He said that the measure of “mild” must be not having to be put on a respirator.
Afterthought:
I guess that, for the Maskless Marauders, freedom means never having to give a damn.
The Superspreader 0
Spocko does the math.
The Turning Point 0
Thom sees a disturbing but all too believable confluence of events.
The Haunting 0
A. Close Their Eyes, Click Their Heels Together, and Wait 0
Q. What is the Trump administration’s strategy for dealing with the pandemic?
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 . . . .
