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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
I try to delete my posts from Facebook periodically, and archive some before doing so.
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
Three recent articles about reducing the risks of airborne transmission of COVID-19. The Risks, Know Them, Avoid Them by Erin Bromage Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection for prevention of COVID-19 by MacIntyre and Wang Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks by Leung et. al. An analysis of three…
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
Please read p.134, “COVID-19 HITS NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES THE HARDEST“ This paper isolates a population comprising several ethnic groups, called Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI), in the US, that are urban, working class, low income, and have many comorbidities, like diabetes, obesity, HBP, asthma, and cancer that make COVID-19 worse. They…
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
I’m not a doctor or scientist, nor am I a right-winger conspiracy person or any of that noise. I’m just putting this out there to help people search for some info.
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
I’ve made two errors, and I see others making the same errors, and I suspect many are not noticing these errors (because I see few comments pointing them out), so I hope this helps people make better sense of the numbers we’re seeing. The errors I made were: Mixing up the case fatality rate (CFR)…
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About This Blog
In 2024 I decided to revive link pages to news on the home page. I did this years ago, and it was an abject failure, and unsustainable. I switched to posting links on social media, and that worked for a while to signal boost news. However, by 2024, the big sites were no longer giving…
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
Orange County decided to open up their beaches on April 25th, so, it’s a good time to take a look at the Orange County COVID-19 website, and start monitoring their stats. If many people were infected with SARS-CoV-2 from going to the beach, it could show up in the new cases they report every day.
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
This page collects links to stories of surveys and universal tests for SARS-CoV-2.
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
I took my friend to county general hospital because she had covid-19 symptoms. It looked like covid-19, but they would not give a test. She already had an appointment to get tested at a center tomorrow. They’re rationing tests, saving them for more serious cases. What the fuck? Imagine if someone walked in and was…
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
Gin and Tonic is a great drink, and if you look into the history, you can see hints of the current fascination with hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug (and also a lupus drug). The gin was used to make the tonic, quinine, more palatable. It was invented by the British East India Company, one of the…
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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Computer Shopping
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Lifehacks Here
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Prompt Collection
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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The Western Gender Binary
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Taking Over “Public School”
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Mid90s and Redlining
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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Mass Narcolepsy
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA