The medical phase of this Wuhan Flu crisis ended a few days ago. By comparative criteria with other diseases that flashed through our country, it was never a pandemic. “From where the sun now stands” we already know that what…
Category: Bureaucrcy
Herd Immunity, Math, Science, Religion and Theory
Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or social immunity) is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through previous…
The Sneeze and The Rule
Here I go again. I said I wouldn’t write anymore about this subject. But I can’t help it. I know plenty of you sneeze. After all, it’s the season right now. The early season. Pollen. My car is colored in…
Short Note on the CDC and Modeling, Flu Seasons 2017-2018 and 2018-2019
From reports at the time: Jun 20, 2019 · In total, the CDC estimates that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season, 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,200 died. That’s fairly on par with a typical…
Social Distancing, “If I was any Closer to You, I’d be Behind You” (Updated)
(I updated this on 4/03 after I found some notes on corporate production tatistical modeling from a Fortune 500 company in the 1980s. Instructive, perhaps at least for government agency decision makers.) In Virginia it’s not even been two weeks…