Covid-19

OK, OK, though it’s getting less likely every day, I know the coronavirus could still flare up. But so far, since early March and as of April 20, there have been a total of 55 Covid-19 deaths in Allegheny County, where the city of Pittsburgh is located. In a county population of 1.3 million Steelers…

Just ordered this from Amazon so I can visit my granddaughter. They’re $999 each — in 1969 dollars — but the 50-year shipping option is free. Versions in team colors with players’ names and numbers on the back of the portable life support systems will be required for fans attending future MLB, NFL and NHL…

While on a walk with wife Trudi on the crowded Montour Bike and Walking Trail south of Pittsburgh last week we came upon four construction workers taking a break on a rooftop. As I took their photo I yelled to them to wave and jokingly accused them of violating local social distancing ordinances, but they…

At the 60-minute mark of this podcast from Dan Proft, a smart radio talk-show guy in Chicago at AM 560 the Answer, I’m interviewed about the failure of our media to question the sky-high projections of U.S. Covid-19 deaths by disease modeler Prof. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in London. Bill’s interview with Dan Proft…

Maybe part of the reason Time magazine has become so irrelevant is that its journalism stinks. For decades Time and its weekly cousins Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report were the go-to-places to read continuing in-depth coverage of presidential races and world-shaking events like 9/11 and our serial wars in the Middle East. The…

It’s way too late now, but here’s a concept to keep in mind for the future, if there is one, when the next virus comes along: Never believe the wild-ass scary numbers that an expert modeler of diseases from the USA or the UK or the WHO projects, predicts or guesses. it ought…

Pittsburgh’s Phantom Pandemic

Radio Rant: Our Top Journalists Failed to Question Wild-Ass Covid-19 Predictions

Dead Mag Walking — Time’s Hit Piece on Sweden’s Other Way of Fighting the Coronavirus

For future reference: Never believe the wild-assed guesses of the disease modelers