This is an edited version of an article I wrote recently for Pandemics Data and Analytics. I have added some personal opinion in the first two paragraphs. It is yet to be edited/published by Panda. Dynamics between viruses and human populations are complex and not well understood. Each year across the globe between 3 million … More Where Is Influenza?
Our frontal lobe processes complex thought such as rational analysis, decision making and planning. A functional frontal lobe allows us to control our emotions as we apply thought and logic to feelings. This is one of the last areas of the brain to mature, in early adulthood. Our amygdala is one of the first parts … More Locking Down Our Frontal Lobes
I have learned that the more someone understands viruses, epidemiology and outbreaks + the less they have to benefit from the fear narrative we have been so strongly convinced to follow, the more completely outrageous their views appear to the general public. Below features two of the growing number of people with the relevant expertise … More Speaking Truth to Power
The UK are being dragged into a socio-economic crisis bigger than anything they have seen since World War 2, and for what reason? Mental health, food supply chains, unemployment, a widening wealth divide, health care access crisis, and so many other seemingly insurmountable issues are crashing down simultaneously on this nation. Some of the reasons … More So Hard to Watch
Clare Wills is an English lawyer representing elderly care home residents and their families through devastating consequences of enforced isolation which is leading to unnecessary suffering and death. She talks about her experiences with these lockdown victims at Episode 15 of Alex McCarron’s podcast, Escape From Lockdown. Dan Wootton highlights the plight of Mary Fowler … More Documenting Abuses
With morning television no longer in my work day routine, I get on Twitter and find out what the latest lion hearts have been up to overnight. Today’s half hour distraction was Dr Roger Hodkinson in Canada having a yarn with my latest favourite journalist, Anna Brees in the UK. Dr Roger Hodkinson Speaks to … More Dr Roger Hodkinson
A Nursing Home in British Columbia, Canada, had 160 staff members and 142 residents. 53 of the staff (33%) experienced symptoms of respiratory infection but none of them died. 95 of the residents (67%) experienced symptoms of respiratory infection and eight of them died. It turned out to be an infection with Human Coronavirus OC43, … More Coronavirus Outbreak in a Nursing Home
It seems I’m listening to many courageous people who receive no air time on mainstream media and are therefore considered charlatans and/or conspiracists. Their varied roles include advisors to big pharmaceutical companies, medical consultants with national health services, senior pathologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pharmacologists, sociologists, psychologists, geneticists, mathematicians, researchers and professors at top universities in a … More Four Germans Sitting in a Room, Then The Telephone Rings
As of today, the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK seems out of control. Everyone is talking about it. Nationwide lockdowns have been imposed, mass testing of the city of Liverpool by the military is underway, anti-lockdown protests are breaking out and there are hundreds of Covid-diagnosed deaths everyday. If you Google “Coronavirus UK” this graph … More Disease Detecting
South African actuary Nick Hudson co-founded perhaps one of the most impressive organisations arising from the 2020 pandemic. In this YouTube interview with Tim Price he talks about the work of PANDA – Pandemic Data and Analytics. An intelligent discussion talking common sense, public health, evidence, science, social justice, history, politics, academic institutions and failures, … More Actuaries and Actresses
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