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Percy Blakeney

"They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel."

More Problems With the Imperial College Coronavirus Model

Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model. The initial projection from Ferguson’s model projects 2.2 million dead people in the United States. It also projected 500,000 dead in the U.K. from COVID-19.

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Let’s Try Business

Grok doesn’t do coordinated sections like newspapers do. Maybe there’s no need. But maybe we should take more interest in things related to business. After all, business determines what’s happening in the economy; at least to the extent the government allows it.

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What’s Up and What’s Not

The pandemic is spurring interest in robotics and other automation technologies.  This is true even for some that previously have struggled to gain traction. The best example is Amazon’s cloud-based call center service, Connect.

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Banning Plastic Bag Bans

America and New Hampshire are confronting the pandemic. Citizens, businesses, and governments are doing all they can to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Some useless measures instituted in less turbulent times need to be recognized for what they are.

Hiding Medical Price Control in the China Virus Bill.

They are Sneaking Federal Medical Price Controls into the China Virus Bill

We all understand at this point Congress likes to use bad news to hide the passage of bad policy. Make bad policy into law and the damage becomes nearly irreversible. Some elected officials are trying to attach medical price control to the China Virus bill. This builds socialism and cronyism into our legal and regulatory …

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