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by asjw 7y ago
> Part of the reason mortality rates are so high among the elderly, though, is the fact that they are de-prioritized in cases when there is a scarcity of beds, ventilators, or other stuff. This is absolutely NOT TRUE They died becaus
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by asjw 7y ago
But I bet nobody will, because you know nobody wants a lynch mob looking for them UK is still having giant music shows with thousands of people, Germany is not counting people with previous conditions, France had even a smurf convention (si
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by asjw 7y ago
Mortality rate in Italy was high only for people 65 and up. But lot more have been brought to hospitals for no real reason, once they were there they couldn't be sent home anymore In fact home confinement has increased a lot once they
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by asjw 7y ago
That's wishful thinking in some ways though Virus has spread initially because it got into hospitals and family members visiting brought it around Italy should have locked down hospitals first, but it's kinda impractical As for th
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by asjw 7y ago
Seegene, a private company, did https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-...
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by asjw 7y ago
As an Italian living in one of the red areas I feel it's pretty hard to do better than Italy in the west if you are hit first South Korea had Seegen almost single handedly testing the population, China is not a standard of what a liber
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by asjw 7y ago
There is also a human factor: most people don't like living in the same cage where they work 24 hours a day Family life is mostly about sharing the events of the day Working home is pretty uneventful and that aspect can be stressful I
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There are things that technology can't replace Like talking to a room where people are actually present and to 20 people each from their laptop, with the mic muted and the video turned off It's much harder to 'read the room&#
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by asjw 7y ago
Car parts are being made in plastic for safety reasons And it's completely renewable
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by asjw 7y ago
For a simple reason: if a product is anti consumer rights, it's good if it is not sold here in Europe Toxic kids toys are not sold in Europe, is it bad? Europe has the right to set their own quality standards, companies have the right
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by asjw 7y ago
I really hope it does
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by asjw 7y ago
My parents are in the range And they live in Italy Still the heat wave in 2003 killed 18 thousands people in a month and 15k in France in only half a month. Old people are vulnerable to many things, unfortunately
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by asjw 7y ago
On the other hand here in Italy - we have a better healthcare system than is US (better as in public and for everyone) - we own the most cars per capita in the west and are second in the world, public transport wasn't a big factor in t
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by asjw 7y ago
This is true in theory, but in Italy the virus arrived from a single German, and has spread through family contacts in a small province near Milan In theory Milan should be the city with more infected people (in proportion) due to the high
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by asjw 7y ago
This is for Italy, Italy is not in the US and has different laws and guarantees for bank customers
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by asjw 7y ago
Not false, but incorrect. Emilia Romagna hasn't been communist since at least 2 decades. Emilia Romagna is largely an industrial compound with better average welfare state than the rest of Italy. At best I would say Italian-socialist
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by asjw 7y ago
Living in Milan. Given the nature of this outbreak the real issue is not 'when' it is gonna happen anywhere else, but 'when'. Italy has been hit first and I must say the reaction of the regions has been uneven, but in t
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by asjw 7y ago
I don't think that is true Warren Buffet' father was a congressman Larry Page's father was a professor of computer science at University Sergey Brin's father was professor of mathematics at University and his mother work
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by asjw 7y ago
Just like Madoff or Trump or Weinstein
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Or could put them out of business forever because they are less keen to work hard than those not living on UBI (for different reasons, it doesn't really make a difference) I think UBI is a good redistribution strategy if it's trul
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by asjw 7y ago
As a counter example I bring you the Italian taxi system Cab drivers have to receive a public license from the city to work in that city (and can only have one) They can't decide the price, which is fixed according to some rules and ar
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by asjw 7y ago
It's still a very small number. BTW most of the deaths caused by the flu are not direct deaths. It kills about 10 thousands of people a year in Italy (58 millions residents) while covid-19 has killed only 59 people and recovery rate is
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by asjw 7y ago
I've been using DDG as main search engine for 3 years, results for my queries are usually on par with Google in private mode, but if you're looking for results in any other language than English or non-tech stuff it falls behind
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by asjw 7y ago
Sometimes it's the only way to look at things...
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Usually insurance is included in the lease plan
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by asjw 7y ago
> more people are using their bicycles now means that there will be less people left stuck in traffic in their cars It doesn't follow though More people using bikes is not a direct consequence of less people using cars It could be,
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by asjw 7y ago
You live in a flat country, were cities are quite densely populated and you don't have to travel a lot. Mine is not.
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by asjw 7y ago
> I also hate the fact some countries use comma instead of the decimal point You mean the great majority of them, including official math notation?
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by asjw 7y ago
> Notre Dame as new building? I would not think so. What about Sagrada Familia? They are still not finished with the building. What about the Cologne dom? The last two are very modern buildings Notre dame was rebuilt a few times, but nev
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by asjw 7y ago
Now imagine being a worker at Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd and 14 centuries ago you told them that in the 21st century they would build skyscrapers... Oh, and that the 21st century is a way of counting centuries of the west, that was just being inve

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