Dinosaur Bone Cancer

Diagnosis of bone cancer arrives seventy five million years too late to help this dinosaur.   More on the osteosarcoma at UPI website.

Remember:  Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

Losing your sense of smell often much better predictor of Covid than cough or fever

From Scence Daily News comes reports that temporarily losing your sense of smell is often the first sign of a Covid infection.  This is called "anosmia".  It's not the smell nerve cells but the underlying support cells that are infected.  Anosmia is not as common as cough and fever but when you have it, it's a stronger clue.  Since it shows up before the other symptoms, it gives you lead time for a doctor to consider prescribing hydroxyquinone.

A majority of COVID-19 patients experience some level of anosmia, most often temporary, according to emerging data. Analyses of electronic health records indicate that COVID-19 patients are 27 times more likely to have smell loss but are only around 2.2 to 2.6 times more likely to have fever, cough or respiratory difficulty, compared to patients without COVID-19.

Hydroxychloroquine: Worldwide Chart Shows Correlation: The More You Use It (Early), The More Of Your People Live.

This chart at a glance makes the case:  The more that Hydroxychloroquine is used in Covid treatment, the more of your people will live.   (Missing is a correction for the amount of testing done since that dramatically adjusts the number of cases identified.  See earlier post of today's date.)  There is some discussion at the link including that some places only tried this on serious cases whereas evidence suggests it's more prophylactic at early stages.

Positive Covid Stats That Don't Tell You How Much Testing Was Done are BS

US has one of the highest Covid testing rates in the world. You might think it's a No Brainer that the more people you check, the more people you'll find with a virus reaction.   You'd be wrong.

The first chart shows the US rate of Covid positives before and after correcting for the number of people actually tested.  The second is a Twitter showing how people (Krugman in this case) who hate what you stand for will mislead you.     The second chart is also scaled to amplify vertical differences.   (Sourced here)

Pineapple on Pizza

From the Babylon Bee:

How To Maintain Social Distancing And Anti-Social Distancing

Anti-Social Distancing

Social Distancing

Re-Opening COVID Death Models Were Wrong And Ridiculous.

This chart from the Imperial College London show the updated serious best guesses of what COVID deaths would rise to in the first eight weeks after reopening four states:  WA  NY  MA FL    With early May as the start point, they charted three scenarios where people either continued staying mostly home or increased their circulation by 20% or 40%.  Black is the data they already had. Blue is the no-change guess, yellow the 20% guess and pink the 40% guess.  Now look at the little red dot superimposed on their devastatingly wrong guesses.  It sits at the bottom of the chart at the extreme least worrisome of their guesses or even below it.  Some states have had an increase in the last couple weeks but this is outside the frame of the experts' test.  If included, they'd be a small blip in the bottom third of the bottom bar of the charts.

Have you been shaking for fear about those recently hyped death numbers that would scarcely register on the experts' opinion page?  Seriously, do you want public policy made by fools who are in love with their credentialed fancies?  Why would you trust politicians who say the blue yellow and pink guesses are why they have to shut you down and wield unprecedented power?

Bloody Mary With Extra Carbs and Protein

Unified Theory Explaining the Creation of the Moon and Stonehenge

Political Pants On Fire

Found in July 23 open thread at Instapundit..

Enhanced Video From Moon Landing

Beautiful to watch.  The source article tells how massive computing power interpolates from source video shot at 12 frames per second or less.   The first is a moon buggy ride from Apollo 16.  The second is footage of touchdown and emergence from Apollo 15.

Yes, Paris Has Changed. Immigrant Population taking over by the numbers.

Covid deaths by State since the beginning: No Pandemic in about forty of them.

All the states death rates per million are posted in this one chart.  The anchor point to match the starting points is the first time deaths rose above a background level of  one in ten million.  Three quarters of the states hardly moved the needle.  New York and New Jersey are the biggest offenders or victims.

Covid deaths have declined steadily for 3 months, now at seasonal baseline. Media panic talk cases instead.

The grey lanes show normal seasonal deaths for pneumonia and flu.
Covid is history folks

SPACEX, Not NASA Gives Bang For The Buck. Dragon VS Orion And No Hidden Fees.

NASA's Orion:  20 years to first launch in 2023.
SPACEX's Dragon Capsule:  13 years to complete 12 manned launches by 2020.

NASA by 2023 will have cost $20 billion, about half of it in hidden budgets.
SPACEX by 2020 has spent $6 billion and would have launched sooner if NASA hadn't delayed it.

Here's a made-up metric for timely value:
NASA  20 years x $20 billion divided by 1 launch =  400 launch units per flight.
SPACEX:   13 years   x $6 billion divided by 12 launches =  6.5 launch units per flight.
ADVANTAGE SPACEX by over 60 fold.

Story including the bit about hiding the true budget in other areas at "behindtheblack.com".

Yes, Twitter has secret blacklist buttons.

The Twitter hack July 15th led to a reveal of the admin panel used by twitter monitors.  Plain as day, algorithms are overruled by admin choices.  "Jack" lied to congress. if this screen shot is verified.  Summary story is that a hacker paid $2000 to a Twitter insider for his login.

Universal Covid Vaccine Will Probably be Dangerous

"Vaccines are hard to develop, and can be dangerous. This is a vaccine for a disease where 40% (at current estimate, up from 35% before) have no symptoms, and where only about .4% die. It’s also a widespread disease — this isn’t Ebola where you could vaccinate 50,000 people and bring an outbreak to an end. You’d have to vaccinate a billion or more. When you vaccinate huge numbers of people for a disease that isn’t very dangerous, your vaccine has to be very safe to be better than the disease. That doesn’t go well with a rushed development effort."

Quoted convincingly at Instapundit with links beyond.  July 14 2020