In This Episode: Having vague, preconceived, and uninformed notions and, worse, acting upon them, isn’t just the opposite of Uncommon Sense, it can actually cause harm. How do you avoid that trap?

076: Leading Yourself Down a Path
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* This episode recounts and comments upon Tony Green’s essay in the Dallas Voice, A Harsh Lesson in the Reality of COVID-19.
* Taiwan pulled off one of The Best Global Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic despite their proximity to China.
* The “original first death” from Covid was thought to be February 28th, but it was actually weeks earlier.
* As for uncounted cases, it’s estimated that New York City alone undercounted more than 5,300 deaths which “might have been directly or indirectly attributable to the pandemic,” the CDC says. More recently, Coronavirus Infections Much Higher Than Reported Cases in Parts of U.S., Study Shows (by 2-13x).
* An MRI study of recovered Covid patients found 78 percent had visible heart abnormalities compared to those who never have had Covid, and 60 percent had ongoing issues months later. Report from NBC News. If you don’t want a “mainstream media” report, here it is in the Journal of the American Medical Association/Cardiology.
* Covid vs. Flu: “It’s not just what the infection-fatality rate is, it’s also how contagious the disease is, and COVID is very contagious,” says Dr. Eric Toner, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “It’s the combination of the fatality rate and the infectiousness that makes this such a dangerous disease.” (Wall Street Journal — but behind a paywall.)
* Coronavirus face masks: Why men are less likely to wear masks (BBC)

Transcript
Having vague, preconceived, and uninformed notions and, worse, acting upon them,