Caesar II died this afternoon.

No, not that mysterious Committee Room. I give you the painful acronym of the day: The Cost of Being Right (Again).  I already knew that banging on about "covid" was a good way to lose friends, colleagues, relatives and assorted chums (you lose the lot for being right, by the way, but find new and better ones - apart from relatives, that is). The pain is none the less, remembering I was right about "climate".  It's all in my new book, tears and all.  Watch this space.

Here's a recent review  of Vaclav Smil's Report (look him up if you are inclined to whohe) Halfway Between Kyoto and 2050: Net Zero Carbon Is a Highly Unlikely Outcome.

From the review:
"Prices for every form of energy have risen dramatically since the policy push for Green New Deal-type subsidies started in earnest with Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021. The public pronouncements by politicians in the US, Canada, and Europe increasingly include advocacy for rising restrictions in the ability for ordinary citizens to engage in tourist travel, and the need for them to live smaller, less comfortable, less prosperous lives to 'save the planet.' 

Smil’s report adds to a growing body of data detailing the enormous costs involved in this forced march to lower standards of living for all but the privileged elites among us. It should be required reading in every household and school." 

That complete 31 "news of the day" Covid posts.  Lasserrade Press will be winding down its covid coverage from now on, gradually pruning material from the site through the month of May 2024. Interest in the topic is undiminished, but will now find expression through contributions, where apposite, to the "Trust The Evidence" substack run by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. 

Publication of The Covid Diary is on schedule.

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April 17 2020 - extremely interesting TV interview.

Yesterday was a holiday in France. For today I give you a headline from Le Figaro, nicely indicating priorities for this, the year of the JO:
 
Roissy inondé, foudre sur la Tour Eiffel, vignoble du Chablis ravagé. 

 
For a relief from covid, I thought you might like this.

To read in the context of blog post 27. 

I refer you to this article, not particularly for its content (I have my reservations), but as an illustration of the immense damage done to the noble profession of psychology by a few fools. I watched one such recently make the claim that had "we" (I assume he refers to the UK) locked down just one week earlier, thousands of lives would have been saved. I can find no evidence whatsoever for this claim. I suppose you could simply say it was just a ridiculous flight of fancy and experts deserve their day in the sun. Perhaps we should move on, as the saying goes.  On the other hand, killing people is still wrong - isn't it?  

This presentation made for sobering viewing.