User talk:Kmccook

I just did my 1000th Wikipedia edit. I added a photo of the Cleveland Public Library to the entry on Linda Eastman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Eastman

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This user edited under a previous user name. This account is a clean start.

|Usage |- I realize that older accounts I used, none of which are particularly contentious, may confuse admins. So I am no longer using them. I had used them less and less but now realize the need to retire them. This is my only current account.Kmccook

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I commend this article. Ware, Susan. "Writing Women's Lives: One Historian's Perspective." Journal Of Interdisciplinary History 40, no. 3 (Winter 2010): 413-435.

I have removed specific projects from the Historical page for school and university projects because I think that this has been damaging to the projects as they have been singled out for deletion. I am not sure how this kind of thing happens, but to lessen opportunity I deleted specific examples. Makes me sad.

This is the kind of bully behavior that happens at WP, too.

Female Scientists Told To Add A Male Author To Their Study

see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/01/sexist-peer-review_n_7190656.html

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I am a 40 year public health professional in Gainesville with 20 years of experience in coronavirus management, starting with SARS in 2003, MERS in 2015, and now COVID-19. Among other credentials, I invented and brought through regulatory approval two coronavirus diagnostics, today used in developing countries as well as Europe and the US.

We are trying to ensure that Snooganssnoogans, Vizzinifezzikwomanchuck, and other individuals do not successfully transform Wikipedia from a reliable source of information into a partisan attack sheet. Unfortunately, I have a job, and have not yet learned the rules of managing people like Snooganssnoogans and Vizzinifezzikwomanchuck. WSJ "opinion" pieces are more reliable than Washington Post "news" pieces". And people die because of the misinformation that Snooganssnoogans and Vizzinifezzikwomanchuck post here. Accordingly, I have contacted Wikipedia directly about Snooganssnoogans amd Vizzinifezzikwomanchuck and, since I am a large donor to Wikipedia, I actually got a reply.

So that you know, here are the facts from the perspective of a public health professional, with references.

As the pandemic unfolded in 2020, public health scientists worldwide engaged in a discussion about the value of different public health measures to manage the pandemic. In these properties, CoVID-19 differed dramatically from other coronaviruses, notable SARS 2003 and MERS. This discussion included the effectiveness of lockdowns in improving public health outcomes. Several states, including California, Michigan, and New York, and many international jurisdictions, notably the United Kingdom, undertook large scale lockdowns.

Acting on that science, after a brief "stay at home order" in early spring, Governor DeSantis chose for Florida a pandemic response similar to that of Sweden. Elderly living facilities were protected, with DeSantis choosing to minimize lockdowns. As the pandemic progressed, DeSantis continued to adjust his policy as science and data showed that lockdowns created other problems in public health, including mental health. Further, peer reviewed literature established that lockdowns had substantial economic cost. A year into the pandemic, the Florida strategy had proven successful by many metrics, especially in comparison with states that chose severe lockdowns. Florida never became a "global epicenter of the coronavirus", as some had predicted. Instead, the total number of cases per 100,000 in Florida was 8734, compared to California (8805) and New York (8337). The total number of deaths per 100,000 in Florida was 144, compared to California (132), New York (163), and the US as a whole (154). If the data are adjusted for population age, Florida's outcome is especially significant, as Florida ranks second in the US in its proportion of elderly.

These data informed public debate, not only for the COVID-19 pandemic but for future pandemics. In particular, they suggested that lockdowns did not have material impact on public health outcomes, while they created collateral medical and economic damage. Thus, by the end of the year, Florida has performed economically better than the lockdown jurisdictions by many metrics. For example, as of December 2020, Florida's unemployment rate was 6.1%, compared to the national 6.7% rate.

The pandemic was also unusual in the degree to which specific news outlets politicized public health decisions. The Brookings Institute noted that "politics is wrecking America's pandemic response",

gaps" with Democrats generally favoring extreme lockdowns. Many of the politically motivated comments assumed that extreme lockdowns were the only "correct" response to the pandemic, with Brookings remarking "even though they reflected as unfortunate reactions based on distrust of the President, rather than proposals grounded in evidence". Brookings Institute noted that "[w]hatever the public health merits, we find that lockdown policies and business closures do real damage to the economy that goes beyond the actual effects predicted by infections or deaths at the county level." Brookings reported that as of September, unemployment in Republican states was 6.7%, while unemployment in Democrat states was 11.3%.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:56, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Jack Kerouac, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A unsupported parameter error. References show this error when you use a parameter name that does not exist. Please replace the parameter with one that the template supports, or remove it if no such parameter exists. (Fix | Ask for help). Below are the references causing this error:
  • Gornick, Vivian (October 30, 1969). "Jack Kerouac: 'The Night and What It Does to You'". The Village Voice. Retrieved August 16, 2026. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |original-date= ignored (help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 17:09, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Waldo Gifford Leland when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Specifying |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= needs to be defined in the template in order to work. You can look at the documentation for the template being used, but it is also helpful to use the preview button before saving an edit; this helps find any errors that have been made and ensures that the values added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is highly recommended that editors use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions of if I can help explain further, please let me know! You can also contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:38, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

thank you. Kmccook (talk) 01:50, 30 August 2026 (UTC)