This site under reconstruction.
Based upon images I’m seeing in the news, it doesn’t look like the average American is social distancing. Instead, it looks like they are clustering around pools and beaches, having fun and, to my eyes, it looks like mostly the youngsters having a party. So they are going to bring back the virus to their…
There has been a couple of interesting articles lately about how pandemic data is being collected or depicted. These articles are illustrative of how we should be thinking about the data or graphs we are seeing. Georgia had the most blatant error in handling data. Or was the graph a deliberate deception? The following are…
Time for an update on my graphing of certain states’ covid fighting progress. I’ve since added more states because quite a few have opted to start opening up the economy. Last time I had 9 states (Texas, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Louisiana, California, New York, Michigan); this time I’ve added 11 more states mainly…
Vox has an article well worth reading about a certain coronavirus model that the administration uses. It points out that this model has consistently underestimated the death rates (it previously said that the cumulative death rate would be 60,000 and then later revised to 72,500 when it was obvious that we were breaching the 60K…
I’ve been avoiding doing any kind of graphing or numerical play with the data that is being put out on this crisis mainly because the news is so distressing. All I have been doing is just gathering the data without doing anything with it. But with the states now starting to open up the economy,…
In my post on the Black Swan event, I forgot to tell about its potential impact on technology. Since we have to practice social distancing, it behooves that most of us work from home. Only those that keeps the society going, such as medical personnel, food suppliers, etc., can go in to work but those…