Poem by R.M. Dolin, May 16, 2025 Read Other Poems Everything I need to knowwas long ago foretoldin the flatline distance of your smile.Still the same,a resolute heart is allowedto hear the background beatof darkening thunder masqueradingas melodic melodies.Wind still brings mewhispers of your softness,touching …
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Poem by R.M. Dolin, May 5, 2025, Read Other Poems At least for now, my soul’s a sailor, a heart devoid of harbor wandering whimsically on the leeward side of solitude with no one other me to lace my mind with worry. There’s a suddenness …
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Poem by R.M. Dolin, April 2025, Read other poems I sometimes maybethink about you baby,you crush my insincerityand what little is leftof my sanity. From the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life.” Issac gets cute one night while bartending and invents a limerick while flirting …
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Chapter 18 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 COVID is the first viral crisis of the digital age possessing unprecedented dependence on data to plan policy and manage mayhem. Before America sees its first COVID death academics project two million …
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Chapter 16 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 How does the COVID crisis end given the virus is with us forever and no one in government, media, or the medical profession is capable of responsibly discussing acceptable death rates, virial …
Read MoreLies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Chapter 15 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 “There are lies, damn lies, and statistics” – Mark Twain We began our COVID crisis assessment trusting government assertions while assuming academic projections are truthful. To bound our suddenly terrorizing world, we …
Read MoreFollow the Science: The Fallacy of Facemasks
Chapter 14 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. …
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Chapter 13 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 Like most countries, the US struggles with how best to promote their COVID narrative; Russia for example, denies even having COVID, well at least until they nominate fearless leader for a Nobel …
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Chapter 12 in the R.M. Dolin book “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 Herd Immunity occurs when a significantly large percentage of a population is exposed to a contagion and the contagion dies out for lack of viable hosts and pathways for transmission.[1] A key …
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