Monthly Archive:: February 2021
11 Feb 2021
COVID19 Wins the Race for the Bomb
TLDRUpFront: A new variant SARS-COV-2 undermines current vaccines and is better able to reinfect people previously infected. It’s probably too late to stop the global spread of this strain. We still need swift, substantial action to slow the spread while we develop vaccines that work against the new strain.
11 Feb 2021
Moving Goalposts: COVID19 Variants & Herd Immunity from Vaccines
TLDRInTheFront: Currently-known variants of SARS-COV-2 move the goalposts on public health responses and raise the bar for reaching herd immunity through vaccination. Evolution, too, is a complicated "frenemy" in this fight and understanding the forces involved help us make sense of how to better manage the pandemic going forward.
11 Feb 2021
Playing Darts: Explaining Mutation, Isolate, Strain & Variant for COVID19
TLDRUpFront: Science Decoded decodes COVID19 technical terms related to strategic risk: mutation, isolate, strain, and variant.
10 Feb 2021
Impeachment’s Indictment is Insurrection’s Incitement: Part II
TLDRUpFront: A mega-mullet focusing on the standards of judgment, relevant laws, and analysis of the evidence on the key charges facing President Trump in the Senate Trial. Part two of two.
09 Feb 2021
Impeachment’s Indictment is Insurrection’s Incitement: Part I
TLDRUpFront: A mega-mullet of the key issues: charges, evidence, procedures, and Constitutionality arising during President Trump’s Senate Trial. But if you want to skip to the end, just watch for the Senate vote on a Secret Ballot. That alone will probably determine his fate. Part I of II.
02 Feb 2021
‘Say my Name’ Navalny Puts Putin in Dictator’s Dilemma
TLDRUpFront: A mega-mullet overview of all the context you're missing on the Russian Navalny protests, Putin's hold power, and how a Dictator's Dilemma could expose a fracturing among the elites leading to a possible collapse of the regime in Russia in the next few years.