Cav's Place

With most EU countries starting vaccinations today, I had to write this. Don’t expect conspiracy theories or a rant against vaccines in general, though I will repeat one thing I keep saying when the topic comes up, which is that vaccines tend to make people ever more reliant on them, reducing natural resistance to disease […]

After last Thursday’s triple record that was just shy of the thresholds for cases and deaths, since there were 4902 confirmed cases and 98 deaths, plus 778 in intensive care, the following day the number of confirmed cases in a day first passed 5000, reaching 5028. Then, after the lower numbers caused by the fewer […]

I was saying that, with indoor restaurants and theaters opening at the start of the month, at a time when a new lockdown would have in fact been appropriate, those records for confirmed daily cases and, far more importantly, daily deaths and patients in intensive care were going to be beaten soon enough. So I […]

I was saying there will be another post connecting the current crisis to other issues and what should be done about that, but it won’t be this one. On the one hand, that’s because I was getting increasingly frustrated with pretty much all NGOs and activists normally fighting for other causes, because they seemed to […]

There are some good things generated by the crisis caused by the spread of the new coronavirus, proving that some things can be done after all. We’re seeing that working and studying can be done from home in a lot of cases. We’re seeing that traveling, and perhaps flying in particular, can be severely restricted, […]