My wife and I got our first dose of the Pfizer vaccine about a week and a half ago. According to the Phase 3 trial results, enough time has now passed since the first dose for vaccinated people's incidence of symptomatic COVID-19 to begin diverging from the unvaccinated population.I don't feel any different, but if I understand correctly -- full disclosure: I may not, so … [Read more...] about Invaders v.s. Antibodies: Dawn of Immunity
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A Few Word on Science and Public Policy
Blog regular Humble Talent commented on my post slagging Jack Marshall's science skills, and he brings up some interesting points.Don’t get me wrong, science is important, and I’ll never say otherwise.But science is also slow. And we haven’t studied everything. Science is by it’s nature incomplete. And it seems like one side of this discussion routinely likes to ignore … [Read more...] about A Few Word on Science and Public Policy
Historic Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Data
Update: This data is no longer being made available.As a very tiny bit of public service, I've been scraping the back-end data source at the CDC vaccination summary page, and until someone bigger and better comes along, I’m making the collected data publicly available here.This is all running on my personal desktop PC right now, and I maintain the code in my spare … [Read more...] about Historic Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Data
Windy’s Guide to Masks – Part 3: Buying Guide
This is Part 3 of my four-part guide to Covid masks. In Part 1, I introduced some concepts and explained the limits to my knowledge, and in Part 2, I went over the different types of masks. In this part, I'll go into a bit of detail about how to choose which masks to buy.As I said before, I'm doing this with some trepidation because I'm not entirely sure this is the right … [Read more...] about Windy’s Guide to Masks – Part 3: Buying Guide
What’s the difference between a confirmation hearing and dicta?
So I was watching the news this week, and I have stumbled across what is, at least to my non-lawyer mind, a legal ethics puzzle.The Senate has been holding confirmation hearings on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. And in response to many questions, she has declined to answer on the grounds that the subject of the question -- climate change, … [Read more...] about What’s the difference between a confirmation hearing and dicta?