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Category: COVID

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Segregation 2020

Segregation is alive and well in the year 2020.  But this time it’s not race that’s separating us, it’s ideas. And this time we’re doing it voluntarily. I’ve tried to have conversations with Liberals.  It’s not fun.  In fact, it’s quite painful.  I like a good argument as much as

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Catch-22 and the COVID-19 Apocalypse

As I walked the streets this morning, death was everywhere.  I saw bodies lining the sidewalk, too many to count and no one to carry them away.  Everywhere I looked I was met with the glassy stare of the almost-dead desperately seeking help while gasping for their last breath.  We

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The Asterisk Presidency

If Joe Biden manages to win this election, I will never be convinced that he did so fairly.  And I’m not alone. In my totally unscientific approach of just asking people I know who voted for Trump, 100% of the people I asked said that they believe the election was

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COVID: U.S. vs. Japan

There’s a meme going around comparing the COVID deaths between the United States and Japan.  The claim is that Japan only has 1,000 COVID-related deaths and that low number is because people wear masks in Japan.  Let me explain why this particular meme is quite likely inaccurate and certainly misleading.

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The COVID-19 Hoax

We’ve all seen the media reports of Trump calling the coronavirus a hoax.  Except he didn’t.  What he did was compare the Democrat’s attempt to impeach him to their criticism of his response to the virus saying, referring to their criticism, “this is their new hoax”.  Let me put that

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COVID Testing FAIL

The most common type of testing for COVID-19 is the PCR test.  That’s where they take a swab from way deep in your nose, multiply whatever they find by one TRILLION and then look to see if they can detect the virus. I’m not an immunologist but I am someone

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Mask Hysteria

[Note: I wrote this prior to the election. Unfortunately, not much has changed since then.] I am not the least bit concerned about COVID-19.  Zip, zilch, nada.  My wife is the same way. Do you want to know why?  Because we don’t blindly believe everything we’re told when there is

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Operation Warp Speed? No Thank You.

In the late 1980’s I was a low-level telecom engineer working in Atlanta.  Shortly after I started working there, my phone rang.  It was a very irate woman complaining to me about how her IUD caused her to get sick.  After a couple of tense minutes, I was able to

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COVID Testing is Potentially Useless

COVID testing is a huge business and people are making fortunes from performing the tests.  But, any information that can be gleaned from testing is practically useless.  Unfortunately, politicians use that faulty, and misleading data to make decisions that impact everyone. Politicians are using the number of positive tests to

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Mask Shaming

The more I think about it, the more I have a problem with people thinking they’re better than someone else because they wear a mask whenever they go outside. Presumably to protect others. Trigger Warning: For those of you who are apparently upset by logic and reason, I’m going to

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