Category Archives: Pandemic

Masks Work, Our Comprehensive Review Has Found

Finally, a rigorous study on mask use shows definitively that masks do indeed work, as in reduce transmission of respiratory diseases.

Word of the Day: Don’t Say “Covid Pandemic.” Say “Covid Syndemic”!

“‘Tis a mystery,” except not!

Could WHO’s Technical Report on “Pathogens That Transmit Through the Air” Already Be Obsolete, Two Weeks After Its Release?

WHO’s terminology and WHO’s science are both questionable.

H5N1 Happily Mutates Away, while Public Health Establishment Plods Along, Treating the Virus as a Food Supply Issue, and Not as a Potential Pandemic

Lambert puts on his Mr. Pandemic™ hat.

WHO’s New Technical Report on “Pathogens That Transmit Through The Air” (with a Note on the Pandemic Treaty)

Droplet dogmatists routed 👏 👏 👏

More Economic Effects of Our Ongoing Covid Pandemic (with Cognitive Dysfunction and the Labor Market)

Are the effects of Long Covid on the workforrce “material”? Plus the labor market, labor force participation, “the economy,” etc.

Interview: Puncturing Misconceptions About Vaccine Hesitancy

“Vaccine hesitancy” less pervasive than some say

Will Human-to-Human Bird Flu (H5N1) Be the Long-Awaited “Disease X?”

A Bird Flu round-up, mostly from an institutional perspective.

Covid Roundup: #CovidIsAirborne, NPIs, Sequelae, Immune Dysregulation, Social Norming, Official Maleficence, Eugenics (and More)

The “director’s cut” of Covid coverage

“The Censorship Trap”

Rajiv Sethi joins the pushback against censorship, using Google’s bogus attack on one of his posts on this site as a point of departure.

Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission

Health industry employee objections have forced the CDC to rethink its weak guidance on aerosol transmission, but experts are not optimistic.

Young Voters, Victims of Neoliberalism, Pessimistic About the Future, Sour on Politics…As Officials Tell Them to Eat Statistics

A Wall Street Journal article about dispirited young voters reveals more than it intended to.

Restaurants: Canaries in the Coal Mine of the Covid Labor Reset?

Independent restaurants are in a world of hurt due to labor cost increases. Yet oddly no one seems willing to cite Long Covid as a contributor.

IM Doc Reports on Covid Not Waning, Long Covid Effects as Lambert Lambastes Latest CDC Guidance as “Crime Against Humanity”

Lambert describes how the CDC destructively washes its hands of Covid as IM Doc chronicles how it is relentlessly continuing to harm patients.