Omicron Cases Serious in Denmark and Overall Morbidity Picture Not Pretty Either
The Omicron news hasn’t gotten cheerier.
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Bloomberg, Other Publications Criticize CalPERS’ Leverage on Leverage Plan to Boost Returns While Missing Additional Types of Borrowing
CalPERS, which has lagged nearly all other public pension funds’ performance, is doubling down on failure by resorting to leverage.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb: No, Covid 19 Is Not an Old Person Problem
Yves here. Nassim Nicholas Taleb shreds the misguided logic behind Covid age-ism. And that’s before getting to the fact that in South Africa, the notion that the old are more likely to get really sick is simply not true: The newscaster starts by describing an “exponential” rise in cases, then interviews the head of ICU […]
Read more...In Maine, Vaccine Mandate for EMTs Stresses Small-Town Ambulance Crews
How Maine’s vaccine-only mandate is thinning staffing of already stressed emergency services.
Read more...Tylenol Could Be Risky for Pregnant Women – A New Review of 25 Years of Research Finds Acetaminophen May Contribute to ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders in Children
New reasons to be wary of acetaminophen.
Read more...How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes
Why autonomous weapons will make the world less safe.
Read more...Book Review: The Rise of Harm Reduction in the War on Drugs
Maia Szalavitz’s “Undoing Drugs” chronicles the growing harm reduction movement which prioritizes people in the battle against addiction.
Read more...How the Economics of Walking About Helps Predict Unemployment, or the Value of Soft Data
On the short-sightedness of over-reliance on hard data.
Read more...The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck
Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.
Read more...“Potentially Very Bad”: Lots of New Covid Variants in New York City Rats
The officialdom is ignoring a possible dire Covid risk if it materializes: new variants and mutations in rats jumping to humans.
Read more...Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
Read more...Moving the Covid Vaccine Goalposts
The Covid propagation and vaccine news is not pointing to happy outcomes
Read more...Inflation Is Not What We Need to Worry About: the Risk of Major Collapse in the Private Sector Is What Should Be Troubling Us Right Now
Inflation may have you freaked out, but there are bigger threats on the horizon.
Read more...Covid Vaccine Whack-a-Mole?
Vaccine enthusiasm has blinded people who should know better to Covid downside risks. And as Taleb warned, tails are fat.
Read more...Is the Only Green Thing about Cannabis the Almighty Dollar?
Cannabis has an enormous carbon footprint when grown indoors, with a utopian proposal for growing it outdoors.
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