Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Scared of what is not dangerous

    We’re now reaping what we have sowed. Anti-bullying, participation trophies, helicopter parents, no keeping score, no more valedictorians, safe spaces, cancel culture, and on and on and on. We’ve been softened to the point where we are scared of things that aren’t dangerous. We have met the boogeyman and he is us. Imagine if an…

  • Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 no more infectious than Influenza

    I found out about a free course offered by Johns Hopkins University to get certified to be a Contact Tracer. In the course they discuss the basics of the virus and its infectiousness. According to Johns Hopkins University SARS-CoV-2 (which causes the disease COVID-19) is NO MORE INFECTIOUS THAN SEASONAL INFLUENZA (See area circled in…

  • What happened to the ACLU?

    This is the organization that used to stand up for due process and defend the rights of even the worst people. If you were looking for more evidence that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been losing its principled approach to civil liberties, look no further: The group has filed suit to thwart Education…

  • LA Times finally wakes up and realizes that collapsing economies do more harm than viruses

    How are the United States and other developed nations supposed to help when we’ve shut down our economies? As many fathers scream at their children, “Money doesn’t grow on trees!” Born and raised in Brazil’s drought-ridden northeast, she moved with her partner to Rio de Janeiro in 2018, in search of work. He was hired…

  • Once infected you’re immune for life?

    Professor Delores Cahill from the University College Dublin says that the worldwide response to COVID-19 is wrong and there was no need for the lockdown and few people should have died. If she is not correct she should be interviewed by the main stream media and her ideas debunked. But, I’m willing to guess that…

  • 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…