The thing about Russia is that even though the health authorities put out some fairly dubious stats the Russian statistical authority is reporting excess deaths and attributing them to covid. So unle… (View Post)

Besides that wasn't there some polling that showed that people want vaccine passports for hospitality? i.e. Give the customers what they want. (View Post)

You would have to be a particularly deranged nationalist to let it influence your views about medicine. I suspect most people simply thought that they would have any approved vaccine ASAP. (View Post)

He didn't seem to understand that being off target by about two orders of magnitude is highly misleading. He seemed to think that his claim and the real figures are in the same ballpark. (View Post)

Daniel Ellsberg — the Pentagon Papers chap — wrote an excellent recent book The Doomsday Machine about US nuclear posture in the 50s and 60s, he had been given carte blance to reasearch the topic at … (View Post)