Paul Buller, A Calgary engineer, entrepreneur, husband, father, and Christian apologist, blogs about life issues and whatever piques his interest. His analysis of COVID-19-related issues make a lot of sense.
Full disclosure: I know and respect Paul, but as a distant acquaintance. He knows my sister, and has spoken at my church a couple of times.
From older to newer:
Possible explanations for “COVIDIOTS”The National Post ran an article exposing, and exploring, the so-called “COVIDIOTS” – people who refuse to abide by the COVID precautions recommended by government. The title, “Don’t blame the COVIDIOTS, blame the messengers” alludes to the author’s primary theory on the subject, but the article also walks another well-worn path; man-bashing.
I have some other theories to explain this phenomenon.
Are the COVID-19 models reliable?I cannot even begin writing this post without issuing some rather important and obvious disclaimers. First, I’m not a doctor nor an epidemiologist. Second, I’ve only been following the health aspect of the COVID-19 situation very loosely.
Other disclaimers are probably in order too, but this paints the picture that everything you read from here on in needs to have generous helpings of salt applied. I’m just a guy with an Excel spreadsheet and not even enough knowledge to be dangerous.
However, something about the official COVID models smells funny to me.
COVID-19 models, part 2I previously blogged about my confusion regarding the COVID-19 model released by the government of Alberta. My confusion has deepened as I looked further into this. Let’s start by comparing Alberta to Italy, where COVID-19 really pounded that country.
Did the COVID lockdown save any lives?On the face of it, it is an absurd question, isn’t it? Of course the lockdown saved lives. Surely there is a subset of the population that remained healthy during all this who would have caught the virus, ended up in ICU, and passed away. In fact, I would agree with that; there probably were a number of people who dodged a bullet recently.
But ask yourself this; what’s the difference between “saving a life” and “postponing a death”?
Another look at COVID-19 modelsA few weeks back I reviewed the Alberta Health Services model for what they expected from the COVID-19 outbreak. I was skeptical, to say the least. Well, they released a new model. My skepticism has not subsided.
Politicians, journalists and COVID-19When a friend was surprised to hear of the catastrophic failure of the AHS models to represent reality because he hadn’t heard anything about that in the news, I started pondering that mystery. How could the mainstream media not be aware of this unavoidable fact? Why are they not reporting it?
Perhaps it is less a matter of being “unaware” as it is a matter of being “unmotivated to question”. Let me start on the journalism side of the discussion.
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