By Thomas DelMundo, on May 3rd, 2020
Perhaps you’ve heard of ‘herd immunity’? The term is often used to describe a national strategy to mitigate COVID-19, where business and schools remain open, and the population living ‘normally’, while letting the disease run its course and burning out naturally. In epidemiology ‘herd immunity’ means something different, which we’ll discuss shortly.
Sweden is […]
By Thomas DelMundo, on May 1st, 2020 A collection of memes over the last week or so.
By Thomas DelMundo, on April 30th, 2020 14th-century plague doctor wearing a face-mask stuffed with flowers to mask the smell of death.
I can’t believe it’s been 50 days since this whole awful and terrifying episode in history began; when President Trump announced the National Emergency on March 13. Notwithstanding, I’m hopeful this will end in an unexpected positive […]
By Thomas DelMundo, on April 29th, 2020
As people go back to work in offices, companies are going to have to modify their workplaces to comply with social-distancing laws. One of the biggest challenges stems from a remodeling decision many companies made in the early ‘aughts to follow the fashionable trend of creating “Open Offices.” They removed dividers and cubicles and […]
By Thomas DelMundo, on April 28th, 2020
The following is an attempt to work through in my own head what I know of the current state of COVID-19 and weigh the conflicting needs to stay […]
By Thomas DelMundo, on April 27th, 2020
Researchers in Paris have developed a way to test for a rise in new coronavirus cases, our crap. Specifically, toilet wastewater in our sewer systems. If these tests prove […]
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