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How Did We Do On Our 2021 Predictions?
How'd we do? Put it this way: none of us would have won any awards. Here is the list so you can follow along (perhaps open in a new window).…
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We’d Never Be Where We Are Except For Technology — Coronadoom Update CXII
Increased technology is responsible for the coronadoom bug, panic, and "solutions" tyranny. If our level of technology was less, there would have been no bug, there would have been no…
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A Visit From St Fauci
'Twas the night before Boosters, when all round the floors, The doctors and coroners were forming a corps; The beds were made ready for the bodies to come, For the…
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We’re Almost Always Right; They’re Almost Always Wrong; Yet They’re Always Believed — Coronadoom Update CXI
I PAT MY BACK Before we begin our main update, allow me to congratulate myself. https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1472385507099246592 A screenshot of the picture, in case it disappears, is here. I have said…
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Yet Another Coronadoom Podcast
Late last week I did the Conservative Casual Friday--Never-Ending COVID-19 Mania podcast with Andrew Harrod. Here's his description: "Statistician to the Stars" William M. Briggs, a former professor at Cornell…
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Anon Wants To Give Up On RCIA: Too Many Women, Ignorant Priests, Seeks Advice
A plea from Anon: The wife and I starting going through (in-person) RCIA classes at a local Roman Catholic parish when they started in the fall. I’m struggling with some…
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A Review Of The Covid Panic: Starting With Taleb’s January 2020 Frenzy & Ending In Our New Concentration Camps
This is update CIX. Let's summarize, shall we? My first post on the panic was 27 January 2020: "Taleb Chastises Calm Journalist, Advises Precautionary Panic To Coronavirus". Taleb almost at…
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What Australian Bishops Taught Me During The Pandemic — Guest Post by Oz Catholic
It has been an incredible last two years as our illusions of stability and normality have been ripped away by a never ending stream of decrees and enforcements in an…