Tag Archives: masks

COVID, Masks, and Children

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 2nd June 2022

The US policy regarding coronavirus infection in children has not been one of medical science’s great triumphs as is true of its entire package of actions regarding the infection. The epidemic has been a excuse for the imposition of central control of activities formerly felt to be outside the boundaries of government control and up…

› Read the full entry

Checkpoint Charlie and the Santa Fe Opera

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th June 2021

In the early 80s I was a visiting professor the the Freie Universität Berlin. I wanted to visit the Pergamon Museum. As it was in East Berlin I had to go through Checkpoint Charlie. It was an interesting experience. The East German guards took my passport and made me change American money for East German…

› Read the full entry

Effectiveness of Masks

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 26th November 2020

Those who advise, sometime with the threat of jail time, that everyone use masks as a palliative against the coronavirus are usually the same who proclaim that we should follow the science. Well, when it comes to masks and the current pandemic there isn’t much science. The Annals of Internal Medicine has just published Effectiveness…

› Read the full entry