LOL, wow, good catch. Yes that is our local place. Small, nothing fancy but unique in a world of big box, mega-plex, theaters. Craig, the owner, is a super guy.

Our small theater doesn’t charge what the metro-plex charges in the next town over. I wasn’t referring to them, though I see I wasn’t explicit about that. I mean in general, these large 10 screen, 20 screen theaters charge an arm and a leg, and I know the ticket prices aren’t really driven by the theater but by the…

Here’s what I don’t think studios or theaters understand. Sometimes I want to see a movie on the big screen and other times it’s not as important. Sometimes I want to see the movie right away and will pay to watch it, other times and other movies not so much. So, if I have to wait to see a major release I expect to…

I’m not cherry picking. Infections are less meaningful than deaths. We know infections will go up as testing goes up, that is a given. We’ve seen some indication that there are probably a lot more people who were infected, or are infected, than the numbers show. But as long as people aren’t dying no one would care,…

I think you misunderstood my point. Those “excessive” deaths were coded for some cause. What was that cause? Also, why do they seem to spike in late Feb/March but are now declining in April? Most countries started recording Covid deaths by mid-Feb if not sooner but for some reason they didn’t know these extra deaths…

My point is that in answer to your question there are several professions that were restricted from working and that hurt the economy and those individuals, not the virus. In other words those professions shouldn’t have been closed in the first place.

As for Georgia, I guess we will see what happens over the next 7-14…

The obvious answer, which the article didn’t bother to explain or even look into is what was the cause recorded for those excessive deaths? Are you suggesting that these excessive deaths were recorded as “unknown cause”? I find that highly unlikely. So, do the science and go and look at how the deaths were categorized…

I haven’t seen the NY antibody testing. I have heard about the Calif testing and it doesn’t surprise me but I’m not sure anyone has really proved the science yet, have they?

I have, and while I find it interesting I’m not clear that a validated correlation has been made to Covid. You can only analyze the confirmed data you have. We could speculate that the number of infections has been grossly under reported and that the mortality rate is actually much lower. We can also speculate that…

I think it’s hard to separate SIP orders and the virus as far as impact goes. I can say that before we went to closing non-essential business my restaurant was seeing reduced traffic. But after the SIP orders were handed down I saw NO business. Even if we could have stayed open we might have seen a significant drop in…

Actually when it comes to reporting deaths it is more likely to be coded for Covid if the (elderly) patient exhibited flu/coronavirus symptoms. This has been reported on quite a bit and even the site you linked had these footnotes:

I have no issue debating whether the question was reasonable or made any sense. In fact I think I stated up front that I thought the question was ridiculous. However, it was a question and not a directive to go out and mainline bleach as many reports would have you believe. Words matter and you cannot play fast and…

I’m not sure you’re right on 2. The link below shows a decided bubble over the past 14 days or so and a definite downward trend.

On item 3, we seem to be pretty flat at 30K-ish new cases per day but is that really relevant? I’ve noticed over the past couple of days we’ve dropped from 32K cases to 22K and the geometric…

Sure, I agree with that. I think the challenge becomes the contact tracking. Imagine a grocery store clerk comes into contact with 50 people. One of them is infected and the clerk gets infected. Now, do you test the other 49? At what point is the clerk able to pass the infection on to others? Is it immediately or does…

I think the inconsistency in lock-down is largely due to the way the government implemented it with lots of inconsistent rules. But, also, the results of lock-down have been inconsistent. Look at S. Dakota. Now, granted it’s a small population, but they have had 11 deaths and 2000 infections.

Personally, I don’t see…

I’m pretty sure they did not conclude the drug was “ineffective”. Only that it didn’t reduce the risk of going on ventilation. On the other hand they didn’t indicate that it increased the risk either. As I stated, based on what I read in their reports as well as some other critiques of the report it basically doesn’t…

I’m sorry you cannot differentiate between a statement and a question. 

Well, lots of testing sounds like a good plan but I still say you’ve got a fair number of asymptomatic people that you wouldn’t normally test. Now, I do think you should test people in certain jobs, healthcare, food handlers, law enforcement, first responders and so on. Symptoms or not they should be tested regularly.

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Based on the information I’ve seen I’m not sure anyone really knows much about this. Even Doctors like Fauci have reversed course on their “opinions” about Covid.

NZ does have the advantage of being more isolated. I’ve said for some time that locking down the population doesn’t do much good when you’re running…

That is the beauty of being a commentator. You can say whatever shit you want. As an author I do think it is important to project a more professional demeanor.