Our state bird isn't the loon for nothing.

Enjoy friends and family as you see fit and ignore the dictates of ignorant politicians and "experts".

Remember how excited you used to get about opening presents at Christmas? I hope you feel that way about reading these research summaries.

A remarkable convergence of outcomes is occurring in Europe.

Some Minnesota observations and a research summary.

Death and hospitalization rates have been very stable for months.

Use your own judgment about what to do for the holidays, and have a warm and relaxing time, whatever you are doing.

No better guide to the mess we are in than this set of quotations; and no better guide for the way out.

After a brief pause, back to the observations and research summaries.

My usual late nite ramblings and research summaries. Read the one on masks at the end. It is long but very revealing.

Just another day in paradise, living under the autocracy and CV-19 obsessed regime that is the Walz administration. Yesterday we were supposedly blessed with some easing of his orders, as…

The Upper Midwest states pretty much had a surge over the same time frame.

A few research summaries and observations.

An updated set of active cases charts reflects a continued tracing of a classic epidemic curve in Minnesota. Mitigation attempts have no significant impact.

Germany not only isn't immune from the epidemic, but offers a stellar example of how well masking is working, and another chart shows how accurate the Danish mask study was.