Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • 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…

  • What is the real COVID-19 death count?

    The news media gets their death count numbers from the uber scary Johns Hopkins COVID-19 death map (see below). It shows the deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the US at nearly 73,000. The CDC, on the other hand, reports that actual deaths from COVID-19 to be only a little over 44,000 (see below). This is…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • About 97.5% of people recover from COVID-19

    I just took a course on immunity and COVID-19 at nutrition-network.org. During the course there was an interesting graphic showing how COVID-19 affects the body and the percentages of severity that people experience when they get infected. I’ve seen these numbers before in other places but I thought this graphic puts it all in a…