ingrained patterns in thinking and feeling (like dogmas)
When (in March – May) we were still panicking and the intelligent lock-down was announced, I started looking for certainty, for a better picture of… Read More »A COVID-19 Interim Report (3): R0-differences per country
When the Wuhan outbreak was brought under control, it turned out that around 86,000 registered infections had resulted in around 4,700 deaths. In week 11… Read More »A COVID-19 interim report (2): Uncertainties
It is October 13, 2020. Yesterday the British government announced a new national approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four different levels in daily new infections… Read More »Fragility
Mister Sum is ready for something new. Looking at data like the numbers of infected and killed per week has led him to come up… Read More »A COVID-19 Thermometer?
These days, Trump is vigorously defending that the United States is among the top countries to effectively address the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of that defense… Read More »d-Ratios
Earlier, Mr Node gave a few tips to read his tableaux. Here he shows one in action. As an example, he again uses the version… Read More »Homo Homini Virus (2)
In 1993, Mr Sum witnessed how the internet turned the world upside down. This happened in the period from 1980, when he as an individual… Read More »More is Different
Populist factions that aim to protect against endemic risks may well be a necessary condition for collectivist hate to emerge, I stated somewhere. A few… Read More »Endemic risks
Mister Sum got a retweeted message that revolved around the following. US domestic politics are on the way to a November presidential election. So there… Read More »What’s the News?
It is 10 days after the murder of a handcuffed and colored American, George Floyd. The murder was committed by a group of four white… Read More »The Mandate-from-Heaven Mechanism in Action?