Can we finally exhibit some calm, rational, thoughtful response to the epidemic? Uhh, no, we are dictated to by politicians and that would be an oxymoron.

The work week ends but not my weak work on the virus and epidemic.

We are all doomed, I tell you, doomed. Or so say those who give us our daily brief.

Here we go again, with more research on the usual topics.

CDC drops a pair of interesting CV-19 related studies.

Not only is my head full of coronavirus research, but so is this post.

I can't miss an opportunity to debunk the mask non-science, which is pretty easy to do.

A wide variety of quick summaries as we see the usual catchup with preprints of research from the weekend.

Some observations and a couple of mask research summaries.

An illustration of the phenomenon of pull-forward deaths, which we can expect to see everywhere.

Lockdown stringency and deaths have a complicated relationship.

Another day in coronavirus briefing hell.

This isn't the first time a pathogen has caused a lot of deaths.

The mask controversy has stirred up the septic tank of research, because there is no actual research supporting any benefit.

Starting your week off with even more of this unending CV-19 stuff.