Interestingly, Spanish Flu originally mutated to become more deadly. The first wave of it wasn't so bad; it then mutated so that the second and third waves had the horrific toll we recall. And of cou… (View Post)

Not that concerned about Omicron (at least, not yet. Hopefully this post won't come back and bite me). - "Vaccine escape" should better be termed "immunity erosion" because it's n… (View Post)

God, that takes me back. For some reason, I still remember the first line of the first page of that: “In picturam est puella, nomine Cordelia” (View Post)

Average. What a wonderful word. Used by so many as the representative of a distribution, for which it indeed has some utility. And then, by so many, the distribution vanishes and only the representat… (View Post)

And, of course, you benefit considerably in an indirect fashion, from living in a country which does have plentiful education, enabling people who are not the rich to become useful and productive mem… (View Post)