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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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Machine Learning Notes 2
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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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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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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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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Inventing Black and White
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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AB715
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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The End of Facebook
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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ChatGPT Rewrites with Style
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture