HIGH ABOVE FLYOVER COUNTRY – Encased in a tube full of masked humans carried on the wings of a Boeing 757 some 35,000 feet above the lights of civilization spread around […]
The soft Americans
COVIDaziness
Just when you think the news on COVID-19 can’t get much crazier, there comes this from the Chinese media: “Great clue! Suspicious US seafood received at Huanan Seafood Market before the outbreak.” Forget the bats, […]
COVID refugia?
You can’t run from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, but you might be able to hide in the forest, according to some research coming out of China. In one of the stranger […]
The mask mess
Parents of Gainesville, Fla. elementary school students forced to wear face coverings for large parts of the day sent a half-dozen of the masks in to be tested for pathogens earlier […]
How fear dies
A year ago in Alaska, the state was averaging two to 15 cases of COVID-19 per week, according to the Worldometer tracker, and many Alaskans were starting to panic over the […]
3rd wave coming?
On the other side of the world, a masked-up Italy is locking down again in the face of a March 2021 wave of COVID-19 infections looking like the deadly wave of 2020 […]
Dangerous air
News analysis A year into the deadliest pandemic of the Digital Age, the U.S. government is finally being pressured to accept what has appeared obvious for a long time: SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]
Fumbled messaging
With more than 85 percent of Americans now reported to be masked up – a staggering degree of cooperation on anything in a democracy – and COVID-19 raging at record levels anyway, […]
Think again
If you believe a covering over your face or anyone else’s is offering you all that much protection from the sometimes deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, you might want to think again. A research […]
Endemic
When, oh, when are political leaders going to accept that the latest pandemic is over, and what we are all dealing with today is a new and sometimes deadly endemic disease different […]
