[walterbell]

> I don’t have any conclusion to draw from all this. It just strikes me that there are enough little weirdnesses to make me wonder if something is going on that we’re missing. I can’t imagine what it might be, since the basic epidemiology of pandemics is reasonably well understood. And yet.

Where's the conjecture? It lists observations and then declines to comment. If anything, the article is asking the reader to challenge the observations.