#341 – COVID: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GET BACK INTO THE WATER – ALLEN TAYLOR

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In the “Jaws” movie franchise, there is one movie after another where a great white shark attacks people at the beach who venture too far from shore.  Clearly, it was not safe to get back in the water, but the people did anyway. Frolicking at the beach is a great summer recreation, but if Jaws is still out there somewhere, it is not a great idea.

We have a similar situation with Covid-19. After an initial peak, social distancing, mask wearing, and then vaccination sent infections and deaths down in countries that practiced those intervention. However, like Jaws, Covid-19 keeps coming back, more dangerous than ever. Why is this? Continue reading

#321 – NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO LET DOWN OUR GUARD – ALLEN TAYLOR

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The vaccination program for Covid-19 is running ahead of schedule, and now, in most of the United States, anyone over the age of 15 can schedule an appointment to be vaccinated. This is certainly good news, but it does not mean that we are on the downslope of this fight. Mutations to the SARS-Cov-2 virus are spontaneously appearing whenever new people are infected. Most of these mutations don’t matter, but some definitely do, giving rise to new VOCs (variants of concern). Continue reading

#320 – “NOT YET DEAD OR INJURED WORKER” – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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A new client in the Middle East had an appalling record of injuries, on reviewing accident reports, I found the management totally abdicated their responsibility, they did not find one underlying course of more than 40 accidents, and instead they blamed the workers, so I drafted the following letter for the meeting I had planned, Gentlemen, I thought I’d start by offering an apology to your not yet fatally injured workers who are going to die this year unless we do something differently. Continue reading