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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
These are posts from March 2020. I remove posts from Facebook periodically. To preserve the old posts, I copy some of them to this blog.
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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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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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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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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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The Western Gender Binary
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Recommending Feminism
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Decoupage with Old Newsprint
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Why Kamala Lost
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Cutting the Avocado Tree
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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The New Cognitive Property
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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The Mirror
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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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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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Pasadena and Altadena: Justice Vigil for Chris Ballew Jan. 4, Comment Jan. 5
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill