Stop the Nonsense

How is this normal or acceptable? Hi ya folks. I just want to say. It’s just been like a prison in here. We’re shut down. We can’t see our family. And I think when you’re my age, you deserve to see your family. And so what you want is a lot of happy faces, round … More Stop the Nonsense

Lionhearts of 2020

Scott Atlas is this year’s leading lionheart in my view. He is an academic with zero political aspirations who entered the White House at significant personal cost. Regardless of which political side he appears to be on, the reason he entered the White House was “because the President of the United States asked me, a … More Lionhearts of 2020

Confused By World Health Organisation?

I have been incredibly confused by WHO over the past six months. Their 2019, well-researched systematic review on appropriate pandemic responses was completely disregarded. Their lack of leadership was surpassed only by their contradictory messaging. Their focus on one virus to the detriment of all else whilst occasionally making announcements of poverty doubling, 120 million … More Confused By World Health Organisation?

Herd Immunity

These two words are allegedly synonymous with genocide in 2020. Surreal to say the least. The ability of the human immune system has ensured survival of the human race. Today however, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation stated that “Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy … More Herd Immunity

Great Barrington

A charming town of 7,000 people in Massachusetts, north of New York and west of Boston, is where three of the world’s most eminent infectious disease epidemiologists from Oxford, Stanford and Harvard Universities met last week to write and launch their call for “Focused Protection” in responding to Covid. Since launching The Great Barrington Declaration … More Great Barrington

Declarations of Dissent

They started out as Covid Doctors Network but have revamped and renamed. Today’s Statement of the Australian Covid Medical Network speaks for me 100% and I am so thankful for them. Meanwhile, three of the brightest lights through all of this, pre-eminent disease epidemiologists, Professors Martin Kulldorff (Harvard University), Sunetra Gupta (Oxford University) and Jay … More Declarations of Dissent

Frames of Reference

Professor Sunetra Gupta at Oxford University in England stated in a recent interview that, as is usual in the winter season, rates of respiratory illness are increasing. Currently in the UK 1,000 people per week are dying of influenza and pneumonia. Simultaneously Covid deaths have risen to an average of 40 per week. (The Week … More Frames of Reference

That Triangle Again

As well as the often-mentioned “R Naught” number there is a “K Distribution” number used in Epidemiology which seems particularly important in transmission of SARS-CoV-2.  These mathematical terms are simplified by the below diagrams.  Where “R0” describes the average transmission distribution from infected case to susceptible contacts, “K” describes the variance, or pattern, of virus … More That Triangle Again