Well, it's not. In my experience, anyone who interprets Italian data without a large mound of salt deserves everything that's coming to them. The figure they are reporting is simply wrong. Ours is al… (View Post)

I think it just had a different pathway - the assumption on Spanish flu is that it killed at a flat rate, regardless of age. If it was an antibody thing then you'd have expected to see a cutoff at so… (View Post)

By the end of May the death rate will go negative, and we'll start falling down the global leaderboard again. That'll shut Starmer up. (View Post)

Well, that pretty much sums up some of the worst aspects of the two main parties. Sectarian bureaucrats, and hopelessly overprivileged. Both totally out of touch with ordinary people. (View Post)

I just watched The Martian, which serves as my occasional reminder that the creators of neither Star Wars nor Star Trek seem to have ever heard of certain basic principles of orbital mechanics. (View Post)