A few medical links

 Because 2020 was that kind of year, and risk assessment is an increasingly forgotten art:

• What is Triple-Negative Breast Cancer?
• What is a Kennedy Terminal Ulcer?
• The medical establishment now frowns on hugging your own kin, which suggests to me that they've made a fetish of physical health and forgotten how much it's entwined with psychological health.
  
  
• Dr. Vladimir Zelenko on treating COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Zinc. 
• New York City's mayor weaponized the virus against the First Amendment.
• With a few honorable exceptions, policymakers don't really care about older people.
• As former Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) noted to her credit, "continuity of government" doesn't excuse young politicians cutting in line.
• Dr. Anthony Fauci hasn't treated patients since 1968, which is part of the reason why it was a mistake for the Trump administration to let him become the face of federal response to the Wuhan Coronavirus.
• The Great Barrington Declaration deserves more attention than it got.
  
  
• North Carolina's Emergency Management Act has been beaten with a rubber hose.
• "Follow the science" should be axiomatic and noncontroversial, but the Left politicized even that advice to make it ideological (Because caution, not science, drives so much policy, and caution is politically useful for people already in power. And also because the "follow the science" mantra is very curiously not used to justify abortion on demand, lest anyone make too much of sonogram images, for example).
• City Journal looks helpfully at the carbon footprint of new covid-19 vaccines.
• Here's a State Department fact sheet on activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (odds are good that this page will be taken down when Joe Biden is the U.S. president. In that case, see Instapundit)
• Not everything points to "mask up and lock down" as an effective public health strategy.

Bonus quote from Newsweek (14 January 2021): "A new study evaluating COVID-19 responses around the world found that mandatory lockdown orders early in the pandemic did not provide significantly more benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures, such as social distancing or travel reduction...The peer reviewed study, which was conducted by a group of Stanford researchers and published in the Wiley Online Library on January 5, analyzed coronavirus case growth in 10 countries in early 2020."