Some interesting COVID tidbits:
In Michigan, heart disease deaths were down in June by 30% year over year. That seems like rather an odd and statistically significant event, does it not? Could it be further evidence of Neil Ferguson's point -- the one thing he got right -- that COVID tends to kill people who are close to death from other causes already?
In California -- which had a lengthy and brutal lockdown, and a mask mandate -- there are more COVID cases than in any other state.
So we're all just supposed to stay in our houses.
Meanwhile, that enormous spike in "cases" in Florida, Texas, and Arizona has already begun trending down, the hospitalization rate is way down, and the spike didn't even come close to producing a proportionate rise in deaths -- to say nothing of the claims that we'd have New Yorks everywhere. Nope.
I wonder if eventually, as people keep hearing about a gazillion new cases, Americans finally get jaded by it all. As in: OK, so there are a gazillion cases no matter what we do, and yet with the exception of a few blue states, things haven't been particularly severe, particularly in terms of hospital strain.
I don't know. I'm shocked at how long so many Americans have gone along with this ad hoc series of mandates. At first a lot of people agreed that they'd stay in for "15 days to flatten the curve." Now it's over four months, and they're still doing it.
I thought the longer it went on, the more people would resist. But instead, the longer it goes on, the more people get used to it. It's like they've forgotten how to live.
"Oh, well. I guess I can't have concerts and sports anymore."
What??
You're just going to sit there and accept that? Because there's a virus, we have to live like vegetables indefinitely?
Ugh.
Aristotle says that persisting in good habits habituates us to doing the right thing. It becomes second nature. Persisting in doing the wrong thing habituates us to doing the wrong thing.
This week I've been telling you about things you and I have persisted in that we should not have. For example, we don't watch cable anymore, but we still pay for it every month for some reason.
Or we pay too much or too often for things we need, because changing our habits takes energy we don't have.
So here's the thing:
Anyone with an Internet connection need to store files or transfer files (especially large ones) to others. We pay annually for services like Dropbox to do this for us.
What if you could pay just once, and save smackers every single year?
A brand new service lets you do exactly that.
But the special launch offer ends at midnight, so go make an excellent decision and put the money you save toward a trip somewhere, for when our captors allow us out of our homes:
Tom Woods