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1\ An urban legend that refuses to die is the idea that "BIPOC patients are more likely to die in childbirth" and that this must reflect systemic racismThis idea is

1\ What follows is a thread summarizing what we know about COVID-19Others more knowledgeable than I will continue to hash out the details, but at this point the data speaks

1\ I'm glad Colm is speaking out about lockdowns, but I'd like to make a somewhat pedantic point about civil libertiesThe problem is that different people realize lockdowns are terrible

Under the guise of fighting monopoly, FDR created vast new monopolies: FDR's new cartels (which ossified commerce in the middle of a depression) were explicitly modeled after Mussolini: A curiosity

1\ Last night I chatted with the manager of a popular new taco place in the neighborhood. COVID-19 was never an issue here, but the hysteria has been intense, and

1\ Fauci's new paper on COVID-19 is a tissue of falsehoods, which isn't too surprisingBut what surprised me is what a terrible writer he is. The introductory paragraph could serve

1\ Just got "Global Warming Gridlock" in the mail from @ewinsberg I'll be adding to this thread as I read the bookThanks Eric! 2\ "Two degrees of warming" is the

1\ If you want to know who a society's thugs are, look what causes corporations willingly pay homage to.https://twitter.com/ZacBissonnette/status/1271266102358814726 2\ In the US, annual reports now have long vacuous sections

Well, the CDC just threw their hat in with the "Just The (Bad) Flu" brosThey estimate a 0.26% Infection Fatality RatioCOVID-19 has been the largest mass hallucination in history Link:https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/p

1\ History rhymes.COVID-19 is new, but a similar panic swept the world in the 1970sIt featured the same experts, the same dazzling models, and led to monumental human suffering and

Germany joins China and Taiwan in concluding that COVID-19 rarely spreads through casual contact It spreads through repeated, large doses, such as you get while sheltering in place. Of course,

There's a lot of eye rolling in response to the question of whether lockdowns work"Of course they do, nevermind the data."But consider other infamous moments in medical history:"Hand washing is