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Excerpts from a recent social media post: It is important to understand the difference between Case Fatality Rate (CFR) and Infection Fatality Rate (IFR). IFR is the figure we need to focus on. A comprehensive Stanford University study showed that, across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 IFR was 0.2%. This shows very clearly that the…
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COVID Odyssey: Spring Spruce up 29 ~ Post#912: NZ COVID-19~ PANDA: Is NZ Death% twice world IFR? Nope!
In New Zealand up to 12 November, we have been very lucky with only 33 deaths and less than 8,000 (7945) confirmed cases of COVID-19. This is an CFR (see below) of just over 0.415% (33/7945 ~ 0.004153). PANDA says According to the World Health Organisation, the mean infection fatality rate (“IFR”) for COVID-19 is less than…
Farewell The AAAmazing Phoenix
Disheartened Am I lost and left forlorn At my cost I all forewarn Please Gods will appease Seize me ill at ease I am tossed on tempest borne Alan Grace 7 January 2019 #warning Daily Prompts (prompt-pingbacks) https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/ The AAAmazing Phoenix There are always reasons For a Phoenix all seasons I simmer in summer I…
The AAAmazing Phoenix
The AAAmazing Phoenix There are always reasons For a Phoenix all seasons I simmer in summer I augment in autumn’s stir Then one winter In a northern November hemisphere I retire -I cannot remember where- My heart’s afire With gnarls and gnashes And fiery flashes In December I turn I burn In my fire My…
Acts of Random Kindness
Acts of Random Kindness Was Noah’s ARK An Act of Random Kindness Ask each pair That’s still here In my tactful tandem blindness Is AARDVARK Alan Grace 6 July 2018 Also see: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/the-aardvark-an-acrostic/ Jul 5 Layers I recycle 2016 Daily Word Prompts
The aardvark (an acrostic)
The aardvark An aardvark is a funny creature Always with many a strange feature Really Dreary Very Awkwardly scary Rightly these [ant] [s]layers do not neglect Kindly treat baby [ants] pray with respect Alan Grace 6 July 2018 Jul 5 Layers I recycle 2016 Daily Word Prompts Also see: https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/best/aardvark
Bad reputation
Bad reputation Reputation built On quicksand and silt Boss and brand betrayed ‘D’ fail grade displayed Guilty to the hilt Alan Grace 25 May 2018 Daily prompt: Guilty No bad reputation for this rhino:
Walk tall
Walk tall May God I try to persevere Pray odd wobbliness disappear No giraffe At me laugh Walk my life’s pathway without fear Alan Grace 23 May 2018 Daily prompt: Disappear
Awkward walk
Awkward walk Please stop the pain I beg I’ve a very sore leg Now I’ve had my x-rays Next see what doctor says The strain’s a powder keg Alan Grace 22 May 2018 Another version: Awkward walk Pray stop the pain I beg May I swap my sore leg Now I’ve got main x-rays Next…
ALL CAPS is a dog
ALL CAPS is a dog All CAPS is a broken cog A shipwreck rock in the fog Everyone prefers Not to have the cur’s Tail wagging the surly dog Alan Grace 27 April 2018 Daily prompt: Cur
Face(book) down
Face(book) down Now many will see abient Facebook’s negative gradient When price fails deeper down We’ll see less score a frown Faces will look more radiant Alan Grace 3 April 2018 Daily prompt: Radiant Zucked out Facebook share price – latest stock value after shares fall by more than the value of Starbucks following Cambridge Analytica…
The Abyssinian
The Abyssinian Belle’s low cries for food were frantic Her appetite is gigantic Tho she’d had some before She would cry out for more Long arm of the paw pedantic Alan Grace 30 March 2018 Daily prompt: Frantic
Places!
Originally posted on Beyond the Skinny Branches:
she stands still listening to the audience beyond the curtain seated out past the stage there’s a drone, a buzz there’s a fish swimming in her belly heart pounding blood feeling electric in her veins the adrenaline rush of excitement that familiar moment of panic will the words…
Puppy Love
Puppy love Do you know the powers due to true love Bestowed by Zeus in Olympus above Prayers to fond Gods hours dwell there Not e’er in dispute well I swear This true bond of my cute new puppy love Alan Grace 3 March 2018 Daily prompt: Above Puppy Love And they called it puppy…
The AAAmazing Phoenix
The AAAmazing Phoenix There are always reasons For a Phoenix all seasons I simmer in summer I augment in autumn’s stir Then one winter In a northern November hemisphere I retire -I cannot remember where- My heart’s afire With gnarls and gnashes And fiery flashes In December I turn I burn In my fire My…
The Prima Ballerina III
The Prima Ballerina III A ballet queen extremely elegant My prima ballerina elephant This dance genius is my muse In green tutus and ballet shoes Her purchases hardly extravagant Alan Grace 18 January 2018 She’s extremely agile and light on her feet- the tightrope doesn’t appear to be bending! She’s thinking about buying cryptocurrency but…
Save my followers
It is sad that WordPress will not allow you to completely clone a website (or change the WordPress address to a new WordPress URL without buying a domain name). Save my followers Salvation with reservation About my affiliation All my followers nursed Throughout blog names reversed Kept I accept on probation Alan Grace 3 January…
The Zoo: Conservancy- Identity almost lost 2350
Originally posted on Green Bottles, Alan's Ark & COVID Odyssey: Alan Grace's vir[tu]al journey:
Identity almost lost 2350 We both smiled and gazed amazed at the scenic view Me (a child) and dad see kangaroo and emu “In the wild,” dad said “These both had been dead Three centuries we’ve not…
Garfield’s cousin: A cat named Kat
Kat, claws cushioned, purred Once, twice, and a third Well fancy that A cat named Kat Perfectly pampered. Alan Grace 25 September 2017 Daily prompt: Pamper
Macavity
Macavity has a penchant for criminal activity.
Peculiar names: The naming of cats
The Naming Of Cats – Poem by T. S. Eliot “But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular, A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?”
Green Bottles, Alan's Ark & COVID Odyssey: Alan Grace's vir[tu]al journey 