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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Solar Power in Ireland

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 Is it worth installing solar power in Ireland? Or is it more efficient to build the solar power someplace with more kilowatt hours per pane...
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Saturday, May 29, 2021

Opening Up with Adults Unvaccinated.

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 I argued here  Vaccinate the old fast that the old had such higher Covid fatality rates that it was worth trying to vaccinate as many of t...
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Thursday, May 13, 2021

FDA Vaccine Approval

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 If you do a search on twitter for unapproved vaccine you will find loads of people saying some version of A: I will not take an unapproved...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

BMI and Covid Hosptalisations

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I keep reading people saying that an alternative to covid vaccinations and social distancing methods are healthy eating and  exercise to red...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Give Children Votes

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Demeny voting is giving children votes to be used by their parents, until the children reach voting age. The interests of children are not ...

Needle Phobia and Covid Vaccinations

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Between 10-20% of adults are really scared of needles. Anti Vax people are really hard to persuade. But anti needle people might be easier....
Sunday, March 07, 2021

Road Deaths in 2020

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 During the pandemic people drive less. I would expect that to mean fewer deaths caused by driving. But that didn't happen in the US or ...
Monday, March 01, 2021

Rewild Irish Hills

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We should not pay to keep sheep on the high hills of Ireland.  Hill sheep are not very good money earners by themselves. The wool is more ex...
Friday, February 26, 2021

The Success Sequence and Happiness

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 There is an interesting series of posts by Bryan Caplan here about how the success sequence helps avoid poverty. This sequence is 1. Finis...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Zero Covid Ireland and Trips Abroad

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 It might not be possible to have zero covid Ireland because too many people have to come into and out of the country. How many trips into a...
Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Zero Covid Ireland Possibilities for Northern Ireland

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Setting up a border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is really difficult. The length of the border and number of crossin...
Friday, January 01, 2021

Things I got wrong

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 Here are some of the things I predicted or asked for on this blog and I was wrong about 1. I thought Covid combined with flu this year woul...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Dry January 2021

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Is 2021 a good time to not drink booze for a month? Reasons it is not : Things are tough and if a pint makes them less tough for you in a da...

2020 books review

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 I read 33 books in 2020.  My favorite non fiction was We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer  it...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Vaccinate the old fast

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The CDC give  Infection Fatality Ratios for people of different ages as 0-19 years: 0.00003 20-49 years: 0.0002 50-69 years: 0.005 70+ year...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

What jobs have most risk of Covid?

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This data is Norway but I will assume the US and other countries would be similar. The full paper is Occupational risk of COVID-19   "...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Detecting the Sex of a Chicken Egg

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 ' About seven billion male chicks - not wanted for meat or eggs - are killed around the world each year, usually in shredding machines...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Short Supply of Flu Vaccines

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  On February 21, 2020 i blogged here about how ' Ireland should make the Flu Vaccine Free for All' . I thought this because the ris...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Judging Trump's Presidency

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Early 2017 I gave some metrics here that could be used to judge Trump's presidency a success on his own terms. Dues to the pandemic I d...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Ireland really should make the Flu Vaccine Free for All

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I argued here on February 21st that Ireland should make the flu vaccine free for all this year. This I argued because it would reduce overc...
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