Coronavirus: SARS-Cov2/Covid-19

I have been collecting information on coronavirus(SARS-Cov2) and the disease Covid-19 that results. As information keeps changing, this page will periodically be updated to link to both the latest info, plus to enable looking back, links to older posts to enable seeing how the picture evolved.

Terminology:

• SARS-Cov2: the virus
• Covid-19: the disease that can result from infection with the virus

Understanding Covid-19

• Vaccines
  • Vaccines Safety and Efficacy: As Claimed?
  • July 2021: Vaccines or Not, Its Not Over Yet.
  • Vaccines are an Experiment: With People As Guinea Pigs?
  • Will An Actual Vaccination Conspiracy In Australia Backfire Internationally?
  • Vaccines: yes, some stories are too good to be true. (exaggerated efficacy?)
• The Virus & Severity
  • Omicron: Worse, but not enough to stop the retreat of the pandemic.
    • 2021 December snapshot, Second look double take, Initial Reaction: Better or worse.
  • ‘Wuhan Coronavirus‘: The Real Threat
    • ‘A wild ride’, exploration, posted back on Jan 19th, 2020
    • The virus was not yet named, but even then it was clear the world would change
  • The Real Threats from Covid-19: Dying is last on the list and is mostly fake news
  • Covid-19 is NOT ‘binary’
  • ‘99 Percent’ of Virus Cases Are ‘Totally Harmless’?
  • Covid-19 has a unique ability to bypass Vaccines?
• Origin:
  • Wet Market? Weapon? Laboratory? Where did the virus start?
    • posted June 2, 2020
  • China Virus, or USA Virus?
• Managing the Outbreak
  • Covid-19 Complacency: Why?
  • Curve Confusion: 1918 ‘flu’ to cause deaths in 2020?
  • Covid-19 Lessons from New Zealand
  • Vaccines, Reality and Russia
  • New York, Sweden and the case for herd immunity.
  • Compliance, Coercion, Enforcement, Screw Ups + Sabotage
  • Australia:
    • Covid-19 & Australia: Lucky Country?
    • Covid-19 Australia II: Luck Running out ?
      • The Virus Strikes back
• Timeline:
  • First Coronavirus Post: Jan 2020
  • 2020 March 17 – Cases
  • 2021 January, Covid-19 in 2021: The Threat of Dangerous assumptions.
  • Mid 2021: Eliminate it? Or ‘Live With’ Covid-19 and what follows?
  • Aug 2021: Covid-19: Almost over, or still a serious threat?
  • Dec 2021: Omicron.
• Strategies
  • Herd Immunity vs Eradication Vs Containment Vs Suppression
  • Covid-19 Endgames & Exiting Lockdowns
• Background:
  • The Curve: The basics of a Pandemic
  • Flatten the curve: Misleading?
  • Covid-19 Goals: What level of Containment?
  • Covid-19 Cases Numbers: Not what we are told
• Reference
  • vaccination tracker: rates by country and with CNN
  • WHO Situation reports
  • Australia and NSW official stats and cases data.
  • Canada and who did what?