Category Archives: Pandemic

Mass Gatherings Contributed to Early COVID-19 Mortality: Evidence from US Sports

A clever and disconcerting analysis shows how much big indoor gatherings boosted Covid-19 deaths.

Washington Going Full Andrew Mellon as Stimulus Talks Drag, Inadequate Support Guaranteed

An inadequate second stimulus is guaranteed. The only question is “how inadequate”?

Call for ‘Emergency Charity Stimulus’ as Billionaire Wealth Soars and US Nonprofits Sink

Charity reform would help deploy more funds to address more Covid-19 needs, but the real remedy lies in much bolder government spending.

Hubert Horan: The Airline Industry Collapse Part 3 – Recovery Expectations Were Always Dreadfully Wrong

Not only is the airline industry in desperate shape, but its executives have made its bad situation worse, increasing resolution costs for all bagholders.

How’s Your Economy, Small Businesses Death Watch Edition

A reader query focused on small businesses.

Quelle Surprise: NYT Article on U.S. Contact Tracing Deficiencies Doesn’t Fall for Big Tech’s Claim that Effective Contact Tracing Requires an App, But Fails to See What Good Health Care Has to Do with It

NYT piece on contact tracing doesn’t see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.

Vaccine Research on Covid-19: An Update

A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.

The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal

A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.

Rough Ride for Airlines – Full Recovery Moved to 2024: IATA

IATA is unwilling to apply porcine maquillage to airlines. In light of this forecast, what happens when they inevitably need more bailouts?

Covid-19: To Clean or Not to Clean?

Cleaning vigilance was an early Covid-19 precaution. Have we gone overboard?

Google Postpones Employee Return till Mid 2021 as Office Buildings Remain Empty, Residential Delinquencies Soar

White collar workers staying away from the office does not bode well for confidence about getting Covid under control.

The War Nerd: Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence

War Nerd Newlestter 100:Irish potato famine and more: a tour d’horizon through AK Sen, Victorian literature, et.al.

Ilargi: What? Default? Where? Dollar?

Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.

For the Birds: Our Avian Friends Compile Amazing Flight Records, While Most Humans Remain Grounded by COVID-19

Birds continue to fly, according to new information released by the British Trust for Ornithology, untrammelled by COVID-19.