Tag: government
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Software engineer rips apart COVID-19 propagation model that locked down the world
So now we learn that the software used for modeling the propagation of COVID-19 across the world is shit software. It’s something that is over a decade old and written using poor programming practices. It appears to have been translated from one language to another, the same inputs produce different outputs (which it’s not supposed…
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Don’t hold your breath waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine
I wrote another letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune. They didn’t print my last one but hopefully they’ll print this one. Did you know that there has never been a vaccine for ANY coronavirus? That’s right. SARS, MERS, or the illustrious Common Cold have never had a vaccine that worked in humans. Why…
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What’s the daily death count for businesses?
Every day governors get in front of the camera to report their daily death count. Governor J.B. Pritzker is one that seems to love to get up and tell us Illinoians what we need to do. He seems to think that he is the daddy of us all and we need his protection. He extended…
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Here’s why you shouldn’t use the same policies for different cities and states
The panic around COVID-19 caused the people and most governments of the United States to chuck common sense in order to listen to “the experts.” The experts that were crazy wrong about most things with this pandemic. The numbers below from an article on Bloomberg.com show how stupid it is to treat places like Kentucky,…
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Hospitals and doctors get a spiff for COVID-19 patients
It’s always nice to get a pay bump. But in this case we’re the suckers paying the bill. Are the number of infections and deaths related to COVID-19 inflated in order for the hospital systems to cash in because they can’t perform elective procedures? Hmmmm… Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients…
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Boston University Failed AOC
She is so poorly educated. It’s unconscionable that she received a degree from Boston University. They should refund her money or shut down the economics department if this is the kind of nonsense they teach.