We Need Far More Radical Thinking Than Any COP26 Deal To Save the Planet
Recognizing that COP26 is not remotely ambitious enough is a step in the right direction. But it is still only a small step.
Read more...Category Archives: Pandemic
Nurses Don’t Want to Be Hailed as ‘Heroes’ During a Pandemic – They Want More Resources and Support
The public and health care organizations can help nurses now by increasing access to mental health support and providing adequate resources, safe working conditions and organizational transparency.
Read more...McKinsey, the Force Multiplier for the Opioid Crisis, Goes All in With Anti-Public-Health Messaging on Covid
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Read more...Latest Fed Financial Stability Report Underplays Supply Chain Risk
The financial press overhyped the latest Fed stabilty report’s comments on China, and ignored the near total absence of supply chain woes.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Eight: Uber Still Unprofitable, But Reduces Losses by Squeezing Drivers and Restaurants
The latest update: the financial media continues to parrot management falsehoods about Uber results and there is still no path to profit.
Read more...Book Review: Scott Gottlieb’s “Uncontrolled Spread”: Debacle at the CDC, and Pandemics as a National Security Threat
Useful on the CDC, at least. But also recommending a hair-raising scheme.
Read more...Jobs Data Shows Something Big Changed in this Monstrously Overstimulated Economy
Cheerleading about the much improved jobs picture overlooks how many workers have gone missing.
Read more...British Medical Journal: “Researcher Blows the Whistle on Data Integrity Issues in Pfizer’s Vaccine Trial”
A new BMJ article raises serious questions about how Pfizer ran its Covid-19 clinical trial.
Read more...Deere Union Members Reject Second Management Offer; Key Demands Include Greater Workplace Say
Deere union members at 12 of 14 factories put the screws on management by rejecting their latest offer.
Read more...War on Cash: NYC Enforces its Cashless Business Ban
NYC sides with those who want to use cash and enforces its cashless business ban, hitting ice cream shop Van Leeuwen with $12000 in fines.
Read more...IM Doc on Medication/Medical Supply Shortages and Political Backlash
Key parts of the medical industry in the US are being held together with duct tape and bailng wire. What happens if the stresses get worse?
Read more...“Why I Still Believe Covid-19 Could Not Have Originated in a Lab”
Lab escape theories cannot clearly account for a virus that has evolved for human-to-human transmissibility.
Read more...In Maine, Vaccine Mandate for EMTs Stresses Small-Town Ambulance Crews
How Maine’s vaccine-only mandate is thinning staffing of already stressed emergency services.
Read more...On the Primacy of the Physician-Patient Relationship, From an Unlikely Source – The Attorney General of Nebraska
On the slippery slope of curtailing a doctor’s ability to treat his patient.
Read more...Supply Chain Shortages and Inflation: How Bad Will the Disruption Become?
How the Biden Adminstration is if anything making the current supply chain mess worse.
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