Author Archives: Frank Davis

I’ve been interested in the story that smoking protects against coronavirus. So I searched Google news for “smokers protected against coronavirus”. And got the opposite report: Smokers told to quit now as they are ’14 times more at risk from … Continue reading →

Carl V Phillips: Can smoking protect you against COVID-19? Many of you will have already seen or heard about a paper by Farsalinos et al., in which they review some case series data from China and observe that for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, … Continue reading →

4 am, and I can’t sleep. Sat in bed with a roll-up and a glass of water, wondering what to do. Why not write a one-off, middle-of-the-night blog post? Our prime minister, Boris Johnson, is unconscious and in intensive care. … Continue reading →

Infowars: BOMBSHELL PLEA FROM NYC ICU DOCTOR: COVID-19 A CONDITION OF OXYGEN DEPRIVATION, NOT PNEUMONIA VENTILATORS may be causing the lung damage, not the virus 1:42:”It appears to be some kind of virally-induced disease most resembling high altitude sickness. It … Continue reading →

I was listening yesterday to Peter Hitchens telling the world that Britain had become a police state, its citizens infantilised. He was talking about the current lockdown, everyone told to stay at home. And I didn’t agree with him. I … Continue reading →

I got my Orbit3D simulation model working yesterday, and used it to plot the orbit of huge, newly-discovered Comet C/2019 Y4 (Atlas): In a near-parabolic orbit it reaches perihelion on 31 May 2020 as it descends through the solar system. … Continue reading →