The Controversy Over Continuing Construction in Residential and Mixed-Residential Neighborhoods in Santa Clara County, CA

This is an article on the controversy over continuing construction in residential and mixed-residential neighborhoods in Palo Alto during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic:

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/04/03/as-palo-alto-halts-major-construction-projects-home-builders-keep-working?utm_source=express-2020-04-06&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=express

Clearly many people in the region share my concern for the baffling continuation of clearly non-essential construction projects in densely populated residential and mixed residential neighborhoods. The apartment complex across the street from me is clearly a luxury apartment complex aimed at prosperous Apple, Google, and other high tech employees. There are several going up in the neighborhood, in a number of cases having knocked down less expensive apartments to make room. The builders and their allies in the city/county/state may well claim they are “mixed use,” but … seriously?

Given the severity of the claims about COVID-19 one should question the wisdom of continuing even genuine affordable housing projects in highly populated areas.

It is becoming increasingly clear that many people will not be symptomatic during an active infection. Huge numbers are being revealed by the testing. Thus, measures such as body temperature checks, asking workers with coughs to stay home etc., — touted by the construction companies in the article — will not be effective in halting the spread of the disease.

Having said that, the actual mortality rate and ease of transmission of the disease, as well as other key factors, are not known. People should calm down and press hard to get these and other critical numbers evaluated quickly, accurately in an open “transparent” manner.

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Apocalypse Now? Coronavirus Cases STILL NOT Boosting Weekly Death Numbers…YET

An analysis of the latest weekly death numbers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) from the week ending March 21, 2020 and posted on the CDC Web Site on Friday, April 3, 2020

Doomsday Virus? Coronavirus cases are NOT boosting the weekly death numbers for pneumonia and influenza from the CDC and National Center for Health Statistics yet. This would be expected if the coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) is unusually deadly compared to other diseases that contribute to deaths categorized as pneumonia and influenza… YET! (Based on data through March 21, 2020)

CDC Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2

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Luxury Apartment Building Continues as PANDEMIC RAGES

Luxury apartment construction in Palo Alto, CA (Santa Clara County, Silicon Valley) continues despite the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and a revised shelter-in-place order that appears to explicitly exclude almost all construction issued on March 31, 2020. It is difficult to understand why these projects were ever allowed to continue nor why some appear to be continuing after the new revised order if authorities genuinely believe COVID-19 is much more deadly than the common colds and flus that cause about 55,000 deaths per year in the United States.

Links: Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr John Ioannidis of Stanford University | Interview:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/

CDC Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2

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Building Luxury Apartments in a PANDEMIC

Building Luxury Apartments in a PANDEMIC

Remarkably construction of luxury apartments in Northern California (notably Santa Clara County) is continuing despite the coronavirus pandemic and widespread claims by authorities and the media that the coronavirus has an unusually high mortality rate compared to typical viruses and bacteria that cause deaths usually classified as pneumonia and influenza.

Links: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cal…

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Doomsday Virus? Coronavirus Cases NOT Boosting Weekly Death Numbers…YET

Doomsday Virus? Coronavirus Cases NOT Boosting Weekly Death Numbers…YET

Doomsday Virus? Coronavirus cases are NOT boosting the weekly death numbers for pneumonia and influenza from the CDC and National Center for Health Statistics yet. This would be expected if the coronavirus is unusually deadly compared to other diseases that contribute to deaths categorized as pneumonia and influenza… YET! (Based on data through March 14, 2020)

CDC Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2

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Why Don’t Shelter in Place Orders Apply to Luxury Apartment Construction Projects?

In this video I ask why Shelter in Place Orders in Northern California don’t seem to apply to luxury apartment construction projects. Public health authorities issuing the orders seem to claim the coronavirus (COVID-19) is unusually deadly compared to typical viruses, flus, common colds etc., even raising or implying the spectre of a super-disease such as the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century. Nonetheless, they seem to be allowing continuing luxury apartment construction projects with many workers in densely populated residential neighborhoods with families and children — some of the most expensive and wealthy neighborhoods in the world.

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Super Flu? Are Coronavirus Cases Increasing Weekly Death Numbers?

Super Flu? Are Coronavirus Cases Increasing Weekly Death Numbers?

This video reviews weekly death figures for pneumonia and influenza from the National Center for Health Statistics to see if the coronavirus is increasing weekly deaths as expected if coronavirus is unusually deadly.

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A Brief History of Virus Scares

A Brief History of Virus Scares

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John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).