The January 23 WHO Situation Report, citing several lines of evidence, made it clear that there was person-to-person transmission of the virus.

A quick back of the envelope calculation suggests we would have 184,000 dead in the United States right now without relatively early shelter in place efforts across the country.

This post shows how it is easy to spot these Command & Control agents waking up and calling their C&C servers. In these cases, the C&C agents are (mostly) benign.

Fox News and Sinclair-owned local stations are propaganda machines.

US COVID-19 deaths exceed all US deaths in wars and conflict since the end of the Vietnam war.

By January 23 the White House should have put this country on a war footing - setting up manufacturing of PPEs, checking the functionality of its existing respirators and ramping up production of new ones, and deploying serious resources to develop high throughput testing to support broad surveillance of the disease.

Using Apple’s approved system extensions API, we can see when a process was created, how it was created, which sequence of programs it executed, and when the program exited. We also know when the program was created, when it ended up on this Mac, where it lives on this Mac, and which developer signed this code.

The United States, and much of the world, is embarking on a large-scale, unplanned experiment: shutting down and then rebooting the economy.

COVID-19 is 75% more infectious and 2000% deadlier than the flu. As Dr. Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said, “It’s not so much of a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more of a question of exactly when this will happen.”

VentureBeat makes a good case for a “Series 0” release of Apple’s augmented reality glasses. From my experience writing and using AR software, I think VB is right.