COVID-19 as preparation for climate change

Last update: Sunday 12/27/20 

This note is a neoskeptic's plea for public accountability in our quest for resolutions of "wicked" problems like the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Now more than ever, we must be wary of experts bearing unchallenged certainties.

Question: Can COVID vaccinations create asymptomatic super spreaders?

 Last update: Sunday 1/3/21

According to the New York Times, "The new vaccines will probably prevent you from getting sick with Covid. No one knows yet whether they will keep you from spreading the virus to others — but that information is coming."

Editor's note: The content of this note has been included in a more comprehensive note found here ==> https://neoskeptics.blogspot.com/2021/01/will-we-return-to-normal-in-2021.html

Our not-so-deep divisions with regards to COVID mitigation policies ... reposted on 1/21/21 after Biden's inaugural address

 Last update: Tuesday 2/1/21

This note, originally posted on 12/16/20, is being reposted on the day after President Biden's call for national unity in his inaugural address. Some media pundits have claimed that Biden's call reflects his idealistic personality; but this note presents data that supports his lofty goal with regards to the issue that he has identified as his administration's top priority -- managing the coronavirus pandemic

Red voters and blue voters

 Last update: Sunday 12/6/20

Some political leaders like to note that there are no red states and no blue states. Indeed, we are the united  deeply divided red voters and blue voters, both colors in every state. We voters have to figure out how to talk to one another and listen to one another on our own because most of our political leaders are clueless.

We need a different kind of coronavirus task force

Last update: Saturday 11/28/20

Editor's note: I was hugely disappointed, but not surprised, by the poor performance of the coronavirus task force appointed by President Trump. President-elect Biden recently announced a similar task force, so I expect to be similarly disappointed. That's why this note proposes a different kind of task force.

Roy L Beasley, PhD
Editor, Neoskeptics blog

Trump supporters who reject masks and other mitigations are not stupid and/or crazy

 

Last Update: Saturday 11/18/20 

In 2016 candidate Clinton fueled candidate Trump's efforts to mobilize his base when she called his supporters "deplorable." This note will argue that similar characterizations in 2020 have fueled our fatal failure to manage the COVID pandemic.

Where do we go from here?

Last update: Friday 10/30/20

In the spring of 2020, when media pundits chanted over and over again that we were all in this together, skeptics like me bit our tongues.

Passover as a racist metaphor for immunity to a modern plague

Last update: Saturday 5/23/20

Last week a friend forwarded a Facebook message to me that asked, rhetorically, if it was really a "huge coincidence" that ten blue states with a total population around 104 million had ten times the number of COVID-19 deaths as ten red states with the same total population. When I realized that there was more than one way to interpret this question, it occurred to me that maybe it wasn't as rhetorical as I had first thought.

A bill of rights for employees during the COVID-19 pandemic ... PRELIMINARY DRAFT

Last update: Friday 6/5/20

President Trump and most governors are encouraging businesses to reopen as soon as possible in order to restart the economy as quickly as possible.

Our total war against the Coronavirus ... PS added on 11/23/20

Last update: Thurs 4/30/20

A few months ago when President Trump characterized our struggle to overcome the Coronavirus as a "war", I agreed.