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Sweden, lockdowns and mortality rates
The always interesting Ivor Cummins explains why lockdowns don't work and why most of what you think you know about the mortality effects...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 9, 20202 min read
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Early December 2020
December 7, 2020. A week in to December and no snow, still walking daily in shorts, averaging about four miles a day. Purchased neon...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 7, 20203 min read
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California surfer girl
November 29, 2020. Gaby, Pacific Ocean, 2020, Atlantic Ocean (Stone Harbor), 2010

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 29, 20201 min read
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Immaculate Conceptions
November 28, 2020. Yes, conceptions, not just Immaculate Conception. I attended Immaculate Conception School from November of second...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 28, 20203 min read
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Sunday before Thanksgiving
Thirty years ago I was heading for my honeymoon at the American Club in Kohler. We came back to Appleton in time for Thanksgiving dinner...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 23, 20202 min read
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An expert describes the "great Covid hoax"
November 21, 2020. Here is some expert truth about Covid, masks, and lockdowns. Top pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson told government...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 21, 20202 min read
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Nineteen months...but who's counting?
November 21, 2020. It's been nineteen months since I taught my last class, an undergraduate management class at Loyola. For reference,...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 21, 20204 min read
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The great political divide in America
November 16, 2020. The red-blue divide today in America has less to do with race, poverty, education or intelligence and can be better...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 16, 20202 min read
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Cause, correlation and Covid: Excess life
November 16, 2020. When there are 'excess deaths' in any time period, does that mean that the rest of the time there is a shortage of...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 16, 20205 min read
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The frost is on the Halloween pumpkin
October 30, 2020. Well, actually, it's snow. Sunday afternoon we ended our walk with a few scattered flakes and by Friday night we had...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 30, 20202 min read
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Know science before you claim to follow the science
October 29, 2020. Hard to imagine who is the "bigger loser," Cuomo or DiBlasio. I watched two financial webinars today -- one from Baird...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 29, 20203 min read
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Graphic Covid data
The October 2020 story of Covid-19, some key images shown below.

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 1, 20201 min read
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California fires: History versus hysterics
September 16, 2020. Far-left pundit Rachel Maddow has no problem concluding that "climate change" is causing spontaneous combustion in...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 16, 20203 min read
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Family ZOOM crossword
Spending more face time with my brothers and sisters this year than in any other year in memory, via ZOOM, completing the Los Angeles...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 14, 20201 min read
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What is capitalism?
What do you believe to be true about capitalism, beliefs that are actually untrue, false? This weekend’s news introduced me to two recent...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 14, 20206 min read
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Hinman College, my college home, 1969-1974
I just watched a not-very-memorable movie about eight California high school 'besties' spending the last twenty-four hours together...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 12, 20206 min read
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Joy in the time of pandemic
September 12, 2020. As the perilous times continue, it is time to review real joy amidst the miasma. First, family. As these six months...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 12, 20203 min read
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Same data, different conclusion
September 4, 2020. Correlation is not causality. Assigning a cause of death is not science, just a subjective, often political, judgment....

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 4, 20203 min read
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How Obama divided America
September 4, 2020. There is little doubt that American political views have become polarized, divisive. Superficial, biased assertions...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 4, 20203 min read
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Myths, misunderstandings and mistakes in understanding poverty, social justice and income inequality
September 2, 2020. This is a set of my reflections based on my years of teaching students about the nature, presence, value and values of...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 2, 20209 min read
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