Category Archives: Pandemic

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.

Mounting Research Shows That COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain, Including Significant Drops in IQ Score

Even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging.

Our Loss of Science in the 21st Century and How to Get It Back

KLG looks at how science has lost stature, and how that affects scientists and the current practice of science.

Adele vs. Taylor Swift, Covid, and Entertainment Industry Pandemic Insurance

Twists and turns as artists and their insurers adapt to the on-going Covid pandemic (and fans go unprotected)

Rolling Stone and New York Magazine Both Publish Product Reviews of Masks (But Not Reporting, Unfortunately)

Miasma delenda est.

Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible?

Pandemic-era have often pitted evidence-based medicine proponents against supporters of more traditional analytical methods.

The California “Department of Political Health” Mandates Covid Infection with Its New “One Day” Order (and How to Stop Them)

California’s new rule mandates Covid infection, violates California’s Adminstrative Procedures Act, and its stated purpose is not justified by statute.

Our On-Going Covid Pandemic and the Labor Market

The Covid pandemic and the quantity and quality of labor available in the labor market (with an encouraging medieval precedent).

CBO and CMS Continue to Overestimate Health Care Cost Increases, Creating Unjustified Pressure to Cut Benefits

The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.

Some Economic Effects of the Ongoing Covid Pandemic

A quick march through economic data and thinking about the Covid pandemic.

The Collapse of the Public Health Establishment is the Collapse of the Professional-Managerial Class

A White House Press Secretary, the Director of a national public health agency, and the Chair of the Department of Medicine at a major public university.