MikeAmelung

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by MikeAmelung 6y ago
> "Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect comment from the Pentagon." > "As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matter
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by MikeAmelung 6y ago
> The US intelligence community was watching mid-November. What? The US intelligence community was watching before the first person was infected? Man, they've gotten a little too good.
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by MikeAmelung 6y ago
Not that I necessarily agree with the theory, an influenza outbreak in a nursing home could be extremely deadly. This is why they are nearly 100% vaccinated. And they are (or are supposed to be) quick to quarantine and lockdown if it seems
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Yes, very interesting, NYC will certainly be an important source of data for the foreseeable future.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
So with a 1% IFR, that would mean 20% infected. Would you agree with that number? Has anywhere else found 20% infected at the level of a metropolis?
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Why would the rest of the country have the exact same percentage of infected as New York City, the only place in the country where most people don't own cars, and almost everyone takes cramped public transportation. NYC clearly has a M
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
It's definitely still "less likely" that a death goes unreported versus an infection without a death. Both numbers are shit, but deaths likely less so.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
This is not correct. https://www.virology.ws/2017/02/17/viral-rna-is-not-infectio...
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I'm not necessarily saying people got infected a long time ago. If anything I think we're just missing way more cases than people assume at this point.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I don't think this rules anything out, because this study was done on throat swab PCR tests. It's entirely possible a much larger percentage of the people in this study had already been exposed and cleared the virus. Not saying th
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3906512 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/who-official-appears...
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Just taking a shot in the dark here, but it likely just disintegrates, probably from moisture and even friction from air. That would explain why the "survival" is inverse to the moisture-holding capability of the surface.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
They looked at the numbers, said "Ah, fuck it, this ain't that bad." and resumed production? It's not like the factories are full of 70+ year-old workers.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
It is pretty interesting. I think if you remember that it's just random the way things get selected for, it's a little easier to understand. It's not like the plants decided over a generation or two to start killing things. I
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
By just marking them down as general pneumonia like Russia probably is doing? This shit is NOT killing people at near the rate everyone is constantly panicking about. And if anyone was going to decide not to try to ventilate every single ca
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Clusters of villages being turned into major urban centers, connected by high-speed rail, further connected to the rest of the world by air?
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
If we don't take some sort of action to bring essential manufacturing, including pharmaceuticals, back to the US after this, I might entirely lose my mind. It shouldn't matter where you fall on the political spectrum, or if it&#x2
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Even if they go and get tested, and it comes back negative, that doesn't prevent them from being infected (possibly even at the testing site, as they mentioned) and then being an asymptomatic spreader.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
As the other reply kind of hints at, it's a lot easier to do this if you have the absolutely dominant driver on your team. If I was the technical director and we were losing, I'd certainly be like "Lewis, pal, we lose as a te
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
https://qz.com/quartzy/1217661/instant-pots-exponential-grow...
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
This guy's name is Tom Smith. Go ahead and pop that into Google and let me know how that turns out. His name is about as generic as you could imagine for a white person. But they returned a bunch of images of HIM, and one Alexey Someth
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Oh they knew, they just didn't want to mention that he straight up drank the aquarium cleaner and instead said "the chemical he ingested is also used in aquarium cleaners." I usually have little patience for people who have n
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I'm right there with you, probably has to do with many of them having never seen a manufacturing facility. But they do know how to write "Those jobs are never coming back!"
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Someone needs to update your clinical practice manager with the info from 2 weeks ago: https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2020/han00429.asp
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Well, you get somebody out here going "Hey, we've got great tests for this, the best." and a bunch of people who are about to drink aquarium chemicals take the test, get a negative result because the test doesn't work, a
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Yes, they appear to have done a phenomenal job. Hopefully the rest of the world can learn from some of the things they've done.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Literally no country has tested 1 million people, let alone millions.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
No, because by the time they get around to testing you, you could be completely devoid of the virus, or it could be only in your lungs, or the test just fails for whatever reason.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
This is interesting... I wonder if we're eventually going to see that this virus is worse for Italian/Spanish/Portuguese genetics. Italy has been hit super hard, New York (the most Italian ancestry in the US) is being hit har
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
It sounds like you've hit on a reason that it might not be as bad for anyone else. Grandma and grandpa are sitting around having dinner with a bunch of asymptomatic but infected young adults. Everybody rubs their faces together when th

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