Read it and wonder about everything else that Facebook does, or that PHE didn’t. DANMASK-19, the first trial of mask use during covid-19, was “negative.” Masks didn’t work. We knew this before the trial was published because we were told so on social media. The authors were reported by the media to be struggling toContinue reading “Masks…The curious case of the Danish mask study.”
Author Archives: Alun Rees
The Monday Morning Quote #634
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” William James
Black Friday. Blues.
(With apologies to Roger McGough, plus any excuse to play Steely Dan) Got up, had breakfast. Showered and had a shave. Read the Black Friday offers in my in-box. Deleted the Black Friday offers in my in-box. Had another shave.
The Monday Morning Quote #633
“No-one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” Halford E. Luccock
How to do a mouth cancer check at home.
A video from Oral Health Foundation that may save your life. Go to http://www.mouthcancer.org
It’s like politicising toilet paper…
“In my mind, it’s like politicizing toilet paper. It’s a basic hygienic measure.” Physician and epidemiologist Céline Gounder, who serves on US president-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force, ponders how to break through the politicization of mask wearing in the country. From Science via Nature Briefing
The Monday Morning Quote #632
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.” Chinua Achebe
The Monday Morning Quote #631
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” James Baldwin Image from The Guardian
Home Advantage
Paul Rees (no relation – as far as I am aware) writing in The Breakdown. Take the “row” out of “crowd” and what are you left with? CD, a disc which is one way of trying to develop an atmosphere in an empty stadium. Home teams are having to generate their own energy with theContinue reading “Home Advantage”
The Monday Morning Quote #630
“Waste no time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” Marcus Aurelius
The Incisal Edge 