The Adventures of Roberta X

     I've got to get to the grocery this morning and see about assembling a week's worth of groceries, so today's post is a litt...

     There's a very good site with national and state-by-state predictions for the course of COVID-19.  It's run by the Institute fo...

      If you're a member of the "Oh, it's no worse than a bad flu season" set, you might as well leave now, and take a loo...

     Because the COVID-19 heat map at Johns Hopkins has nearly one-to-one correspondence with population density, at least for the United S...

     Here's a decent set of charts and graphs , presented with straightforward, factual description and discussion.      Remember, havin...

     CDC has an online coronavirus symptom checker .

     I am experiencing what feels like a kidney stone.  The pain is....  Well, it's not as bad as the worst of one of these.  But it...

     There's a remarkably beautiful and dangerously thick fog over Indianapolis this morning.      It's a good morning for it.  In...

     You've seen the headline or tagline: in Italy, patients above a certain age aren't getting respiratory support.      I'd ...

     Another reminder: I will not publish rumor or hearsay in comments.  If your paragraph starts with "We're now hearing about......

     And, of course, since I set ground rules for comments, commenters are testing the limits.      They're pretty strict.  If you hav...

     One of the complaints that I keep encountering almost everywhere, from fairly reasonable people and conspiritards alike is, "Why d...