A penny for your thoughts? Einstein thought them worth far more. He used “thought experiments” to explain the nature of relativity and the universe. Einstein would ask, what if? What if you use established principles and relate them to scenarios that can’t be experimented upon, or do not yet exist? Let’s apply some thought experiments […]
Covid-19 and AIDS: Parallels
The past is never past. As I wrote two months ago, the bungled political response to Covid-19 eerily paralleled the first American responses to AIDS https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-rest/202005/aids-and-covid-19-weve-been-here. The present parallels between Covid-19 and AIDS continue to increase: Both diseases are nasty and lethal in unexpected ways With AIDS, originally GRIDS (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome), many of the […]
Covid-19 – Using the Skew for You
Could you be a superspreader of Covid-19? Chances are good you will not know. Many spreaders are asymptomatic. But more and more research demonstrates a minority of those afflicted – 10-20% of the total – infect 80% of total cases. The result is a low kappa – the degree of “skew” in the epidemic’s data. […]
Interview with the Virus
You need to know your enemy better than yourself. Much, much better. It’s best to know how Sars Cov 2 “thinks.” What its biological intelligence tells you it wants. But viruses don’t “think, ” they just do. They are ruthless, invisible parasites that make the Aliens in “Alien” appear pretty pussycats. Yet with the aid […]
Coronavirus Public Health Blog 5.17.20 To Mask or Not to Mask? Pros and Cons
Masks are all the rage – literally. People get shot asking you to wear them. Some people smile and wave. So what are the pros and cons of wearing pandemic masks? Here are a few of the innumerable reasons to wear and not to wear: Pros I might live longer. The other guy might live […]