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by droithomme 7y ago
Massachusetts was one of the first states to attempt universal health care coverage. They also have some genuinely fantastic research hospitals. The best in the nation? Not sure and maybe not. But "some of the best", yeah, that&
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They should test her. She might have it. They have the testing capacity. Your opinion on this is incorrect. If Netherlands continues with this policy they are following in the horrific missteps of the US in restricting testing. Some homebod
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by droithomme 7y ago
> If there is no refund being offered for the content shifting online from in-person, why have in-person at all? Most MIT undergrads pay no tuition, even though tuition is something like $70,000 a year there. They have a massive endowmen
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by droithomme 7y ago
$6000 a month mortgage. $1000 a month property taxes. $2000 a month health insurance premiums. $1000 a month car payments. $1000 a month food bill. That's not uncommon in the bay area for a developer with two or three kids. $132k witho
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by droithomme 7y ago
Thanks. As I see it it is beneficial to society to avoid putting the quarantined in such desperate situations as they have no reasonable choice but to break quarantine. They need their needs taken care of to prevent them losing all they hav
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by droithomme 7y ago
I think you must have misunderstood my comment because you say you see it from another angle, then you explain my position. It is vitally necessary to society that people be quarantined and be able to cope with the quarantine, and this requ
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by droithomme 7y ago
Good.
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by droithomme 7y ago
Covid-19 infection is not a lifestyle "entitlement" contrary to your claim. It's obviously a disability that prevents you from being able to work and absolutely people who get it should receive the disability INSURANCE paymen
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by droithomme 7y ago
> Do whatever you can't stop thinking about Hm, so that means I should live in an underground bunker with filtered air, hydroponics, and a decade long cache of provisions until the pandemic passes.
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by droithomme 7y ago
Whitehouse trade advisor Peter Navarro made the claim in an interview on February 24th: https://youtu.be/4nM0gDDKYDQ?t=205 > "Let's take face masks for example. N95 face masks. Typical problem, China. China ba
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by droithomme 7y ago
Whitehouse trade advisor Peter Navarro made the claim in an interview on February 24th: https://youtu.be/4nM0gDDKYDQ?t=205 > "Let's take face masks for example. N95 face masks. Typical problem, China. China ba
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by droithomme 7y ago
According to early February's reports, 3M's mask making factory - in China - was nationalized by the Chinese Government. Ships en route to the US with mask deliveries were supposedly ordered to turn around and bring the masks back
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by droithomme 7y ago
Likely very little to none. Something that size mostly burns up in the atmosphere. Maybe a schoolboy would be slightly singed by a pebble while walking home. https://www.space.com/6833-boy-hit-meteorite.html Famous previous
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by droithomme 7y ago
Not really but kind of. In the same way we have hundreds of thousands of small satellite bodies.
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by droithomme 7y ago
> defer to the expert numbers (2-3%) Latest expert estimate of global mortality rate, as published by WHO, is 3.4% as reported here: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/WHO-global-mortality-... And also as r
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by droithomme 7y ago
Here's how to put them on and take them off properly, courtesy of Singapore General Hospital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoxpvDVo_NI
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by droithomme 7y ago
> only a N95 or better mask would protect you from incoming That is not only completely false but is extremely dangerous misinformation. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190903134732.h... >
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by droithomme 7y ago
The article doesn't mention it, but there's many people who moved to this rectangle because they are (believe or actually are) hypersensitive to radio transmissions.
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by droithomme 7y ago
I think it's even worse than that. "I did this and that." Translation: "I assert that I myself did these things." "We did this and that." Translation: "Some guys that work at my company did it."
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by droithomme 7y ago
Machines eh.
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by droithomme 7y ago
You should consider reading the scientific study that this entire thread is about. > In this article, a risk assessment model previously developed in general form was used to estimate the effectiveness of different types of protective
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by droithomme 7y ago
"There is no doubt we have won the war. This is why they are signing a peace treaty." - Chief Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai Well, they disagree with you.
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by droithomme 7y ago
> The war had no clear objectives. True for the US side, and thus was unwinnable. Not true for the Afghan side. Their goal was to expel the invaders. Their goal accomplished, the only possible conclusion is they won the war.
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by droithomme 7y ago
Thanks for this. The US Surgeon General needs to be fired and delicensed from medical practice after his claim yesterday that no one should buy masks because masks don't work. He has no business representing himself as a qualified medi
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by droithomme 7y ago
You believe the US won? > we wanted to withdraw and the reason for that is that we knew it would be immoral to use the force required to completely kill them We won because we didn't commit total genocide, only partial genocide? Due
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by droithomme 7y ago
Here's another victory: caused 2 trillion in damages to the enemy and thoroughly demoralized them. Primitive stone age goat herders vs the "world's most powerful" military. Who will win?
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by droithomme 7y ago
The Afghans win because they successfully repelled the invaders after a long and terrible war. Repelling the invaders is a winning end state in a war where the start state was invasion by a foreign country.
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by droithomme 7y ago
How do you infect 600 people during a 2 hr service if it's only transmitted through droplets and prolonged close contact.
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by droithomme 7y ago
The south tower had begun evacuation when "an official" announced over the building wide intercom that everything was fine and the people in the stairwell needed to turn around and go back to work. This story, told by survivors wh
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by droithomme 7y ago
I don't turn off my virus blocker for anyone. No way no how no sir. Sites that refuse to show content without opening up for viruses are intrinsically suspicious, no matter how fancy their brand name.

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