Devils-Avocado

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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
Australia will be the slowest to go back to normal since they will need to maintain national quarantine forever - until a suitable vaccine is found and administered. $25,000 per person is a huge amount of money, far greater than for any nat
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
The Federal Government forecasts debt will increase by $500billion due to the pandemic response. If we take the deathtoll from Sweden (lower than the USA, Spain, Italy, Belgium), Australia could have expected 15,000 deaths, adjusted for pop
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
A far larger amount of money is devoted to the healthcare and welfare of the aged. Italy devotes 17% of its GDP to pensions, for example. In the middle of the cold war USA defense spending never exceed 10%.
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
The people earning high incomes from their labour are typically the most productive members of society. They need to be able to enjoy the fruits of their labour without needing to resort to elaborate tax schemes. Part of the reason the USA
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm Less than 80 people under age age of 15 have died from COVID. Child deaths from COVID are essentially zero. In the same timeframe about 110 died
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
But that's a grinding process that good take decades to play out, leaving the city looking like Detroit or Chicago at the end.
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
Why would you vaccinate children for something which is less deadly than the flu? This is the case even up to 60 years old.
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
This is why we need to take to space - we need new problems to solve. Asteroid mining and establishing a base on the moon seems a good near-term challenge.
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
These companies might be able to continue operations running on fumes, but I'm not sure how new teams can be formed and new staff onboarded with zero human contact or office interaction. What would make more sense is simply to move th
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
Why does a human in Africa have a greater right to landmass and habitat than an elephant, gorilla, or giraffe? If these humans are thriving thanks to Western technology and aid, I think we have the right to dictate their population levels a
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by Devils-Avocado 6y ago
Is this also a solution to edge-cases for autonomous vehicles? eg. driven by AI 99.9% of the time, and for the 0.1% (eg. breakdown, flooding, police action) they are taken over by a remote driver and driven slowly and carefully back to norm