MikeAmelung

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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/12/the-co... So is this nonsense?
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Well sure, you don't just lay all your cards out on the table when you've got a good hand going. There are already rapid antibody tests available. It's extremely curious to me why they haven't been used or we at least ar
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Not if they're gleefully watching "the West" crush themselves in mass panic...
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Did you create this account to cause panic? Complete bullshit statement you just made.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Couple of possibilities I've been thinking about: The virus has been in Italy for a lot longer than they think, and they get close to each other/have actual contact a lot (I don't know if that's actually true, I've
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Gonna need to see some actual data. Median hospitalization age of 65 and then 40% of patients in the ICU being under 50 already doesn't even make any sense.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Ok, so where are the cases from 2 weeks ago?
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
So the 24% of the US population aged 0-18 is just as likely to die as the "confirmed" cases of COVID-19 in Italy? If anyone does anything but dismiss this stupid ass math, they should panic.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Yeah, and at least they won't have to endure the rationing, because they were on death's doorstep already. I don't think a lot of people saying this kind of stuff are considering the deaths from an economic catastrophe.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I agree with the obsession with the "test kits". The tests that are hard to come by, hard to process, and only detect active viruses. Antibodies are what we need to be testing for. 10 minutes from blood to result. Works on formerl
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Vast majority of people weren't at risk from this disease until we collapsed the economy, sooo...
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
This has been part of my thinking for a while. A lot of people's models seem to be based on the idea that they know when the first actual infection arrived in a particular area. Given that a lot of people seem to have almost no symptom
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
How are we accounting for the number of deaths being almost the same with the US having almost 4 times as many cases?
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I used it once upon a time to essentially allow joins across 3 separate databases that had all been developed/grown independently. Once you have certain kinds of resolvers between types, all sorts of neat stuff is possible. Ultimately,
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Not only that, it only lets you query your "root" type by primary key? So it's less functional than the normal interface to the database. I'm having a really hard time understanding the point of this.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I have no idea of any plans to start doing the testing, but: https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/biomerica-begins-s... https://www.biomedomics.com/products/infectious-disease/covi..
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Thank you for clarifying, but what I'm thinking is that our CFR denominator is off by a whole lot right now. Could be wrong, of course, I'm still not an epidemiologist.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I want to see serological testing results from random samples of the population... hopefully we get that soon.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I'm not an epidemiologist, but... isn't it a little early to say "H1N1 ended up not being as fatal as SARSCoV2"?
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
I apologize, I'm just burnt out from reading comments from the millions of new epidemiologists spreading nonsense. I should probably take a break, but it's fascinating as much as it's antagonizing.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
You don't know the difference between case fatality rate and mortality rate, so maybe you should stop with the irresponsible speculation.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
This isn't so much a nuclear question as a power transmission question. Here is a link that could help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
It's not just funding, it's also that the local government in these areas is entirely corrupt. Any money they do receive from above or collect from below is sure to be siphoned one way or another. If it wasn't so un-American,
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Where does it say they have to make minimum wage? If someone was stupid enough to hire the guy again as an accountant, he could make whatever he made before. Hell, like most of the geniuses in this story, he could embezzle from the next guy
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
According to this page: https://www.who.int/gho/mental_health/suicide_rates/en/ Suicide rates are: 21.1/100k for US males 17.4/100k for Australian males Guess you aren't paying enough?
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
It's there but kind of easy to miss. A TV interviewer asked if KFC for Christmas was a popular tradition in the West, and he replied that it was, despite knowing that it was not.
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by MikeAmelung 7y ago
Easy enough, except it says that they must satisfy EACH of the conditions, not one of the conditions.
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by MikeAmelung 8y ago
There are others, too numerous to mention, yet you used someone that was very likely guilty as your second example? Just wanted to bring this up in case anyone reads your comment and thoughtlessly nods in agreement.
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by MikeAmelung 8y ago
Oh yeah? Where's that? Please provide a single source.
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by MikeAmelung 8y ago
Along with the sibling replies, maybe this is just part of the natural cycle of things. People will make Boise the new Austin. Prices will rise, demand for better infrastructure increases, things improve. A generation is raised. Their child

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