SARS-CoV-2 – a black swan

… a pandemic simply resulting from selection pressure and chance … It is part of human nature that many of us cannot imagine unpredictable things to happen – be it good or bad incidents. A ‘black swan’ is a highly improbable but not impossible event. This event is unpredictable and might have momentous consequences in […]

country-wide adjustments of the coronavirus-related measures in GERMANY

Since our most recent blog post is dealing with a political issue specifically in Germany, we refrained from translating it. If interested, you may find it on: https://www.sajo-innovation.de/blog/de/bundesweite-justierungen-der-coronavirus-massnahmen/ Yours, Sabine and Jörg SAJO – für eine gesunde und bessere Zukunft! Informations about newest scientific findings to COVID-19: https://www.sajo-innovation.de/blog/summer-2020-in-germany/ Informations to the development of the pandemic […]

pandemics in history and folk music

Pandemics tend to leave traces, … … not just in history but also and probably at first in popular culture. During the 1918/19 Influenza pandemic – a major killer of the twentieth century (remember, there were more than 50 million horrible deaths) – children were singing a rhyme: “I had a little bird, its name […]

for GERMANY: pandemic level ORANGE

On grounds of growing infection numbers, an appeal to all of you: Adjustments are necessary, otherwise we shall lose! Dear readers, We are accompanying you through this pandemic since February. We are giving advice, we are informing you, we are coming along, and we are repeating ourselves when necessary. Please read this post attentively. We […]

assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic – treatment options – consequences

by Sabine Breun and Joerg Baumann, August 10, 2020 To-date 20,000,000 SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals have been recorded globally, with an unknown number of unrecorded cases. A pandemic always is subject to an unpredictable development and dynamics. Based on experience, virologists and epidemiologists may extrapolate certain dynamics of a pandemic, which is depending on the pathogen […]

summer reading 2020

… in the garden, in front of the tent or the camper, or on the beach … … recommended distance included – virus free zone … My summer reading 2020 is “The Great Influenza” (2004) by John M. Barry. The author is a journalist, who covers the horrendous events of the 1918 Spanish Flu in […]

summertime 2020: music mesmerizes – science captivates

… and both unite the people of the world! If you listen to Maria Callas singing the Norma, or the Carmen by Julia Migenes, or the arias of La Bohème sung by Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, or other classical pieces by excellent musicians and orchestras, you will understand what I mean. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, […]

causality or correlation – wishful thinking in science

Satire and tragedy in science …. an example. Please believe us: We are not running a satiric blog! Today, we shall visit the lowlands of scientific publication culture. With more than 30,000 published papers on COVID-19, inevitably there will be junk papers as well. Unfortunately, their number is not a small one. This is damaging […]

summer 2020 in Germany

…an outlook into the coming months with SARS-CoV-2 First, we want to point to our recent blog post, where we described how the pandemic is gaining traction worldwide. In several countries, such as the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, India, South Africa, Iran, and Saudi Arabia it is reaching dimensions of human tragedies. Too many politicians in […]