Rambling / Idle Thoughts On The Corona Virus -- Early Morning Edition -- May 12, 2020

This is interesting, at least to me.

At the sidebar at the right, the blogger app tracks the top ten trending posts. Generally, they are all "recent" posts. Today I noted two very, very old posts that had landed among the top ten:

• an October 23, 2016, post on Williston's draft comprehensive plans for city and county;
• an April 5, 2017, post on Einstein's definition of insanity;

When this happens it leads me to suspect the site is being looked at for reasons that concern me, in a negative way.

Be that as it may, I will slog on, hoping that I'm wrong, and it's simply an anomaly associated with the number of hits on the blog decreasing, and the "law of small numbers." I have not checked the number of hits in quite some time; I may do that later this week just out of curiosity.

After reviewing the post on Einstein's definition of insanity (linked above), I wondered if I should add the global response to the corona virus pandemic. I was just wondering. I wasn't looking for arguments / articles to help me make a decision. Instead, before posting today's "Bakken data" I checked my favorite non-Bakken blogs at the sidebar the right.

Wow, talk about serendipity.

This was the first hit, over at Watts Up With That: lockdown fail in one easy graph. There are several flaws in the writer's analysis but it is what it is, and it's enough to to swing the argument in favor of adding the "global lockdown in response to corona virus" to the list of Einstein's definition of insanity.

But there's a twofer, which really made it serendipitous to have seen this post at this particular moment. At that link, there was a link to another article regarding the pandemic: why herd immunity to Wuhan flu is reached much earlier that thought. If that study is confirmed, it suggests that this "whole thing" could have been over by now had we just let "it" play out, like we did with swine flu and the "ebola panic" under the Obama administration, in which the Obama strategy was fairly simple: "Just chill."

Of course, that was not an option with corona virus given social media, fake news, and a millennial generation that is mathematically challenged.

This one video provides examples of all three (social media, fake news, and a millennial generation that is mathematically challenged):

Re-posting: seriously -- I thought she had blonde roots. LOL. Hey, it's a joke. Okay, I take it back. I thought she was Norwegian -- who else but a Norski could make such a blunder? By the way, Brian Williams could claim he knew this all along, simply stringing his guest out -- he, the straight man; she, the comedienne.

Really Bad Math, Brian Williams

By the way: that math wizard (in the video above) over at the NYT editorial board says she was humiliated because she is African-American. Wow, she can't dig her hole fast enough. She said after her MSNBC debacle, seen by millions, that she needs to go out and buy a calculator.

On top of everything else she did not know that her smart phone already has a calculator app embedded.

By the way, in case you missed it, just this past week, "Fauci" says people should not be wearing masks -- Real Climate Science; no wonder folks are confused.

By the way, Americans like what Trump is doing with regard to corona virus, the Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll:

You think Pelosi, Schumer, Cuomo, Newsom, et al, aren't watching this poll? LOL.

Another good example of folks not understanding the pandemic, from the BBC over on twitter today: more than 2,000 deaths could have been prevented if Scotland had locked down two weeks earlier according to scientists at Edinburgh University.

The "lock down" was never designed to prevent deaths per se but rather to "flatten the curve."