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by erentz 7y ago
Currently there is a private tax that people and companies pay: the insurance premium. All Medicare for all proposals have funding plans that include higher taxes or new taxes that essentially pick up this premium in other areas. At least s
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by erentz 7y ago
You’re right in that it is a no brainer and has been for some time: 68,000 people die each year in the US due to lack of healthcare. On top of that it will save the US about $500 billion per year. So it’s right for both moral and fiscal rea
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by erentz 7y ago
I don’t think you read my comment in the context of what it was replying too. It was a response to someone saying people can get reinfected. The reports of this appears not to the case for the reasons I and others explained (false positives
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by erentz 7y ago
That’s true. Though you could still buffer it with a “must be positive for N weeks” rule. Also, while there would be concern about a positive but still shedding person coming into contact with one who hasn’t contracted it, there’d be no iss
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by erentz 7y ago
There’s not good evidence of that. There have been cases of people testing negative then positive again but that doesn’t mean they had cleared the virus and got reinfected. It more likely means they had a false negative. (E.g. I have a frie
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by erentz 7y ago
One reason people seem to be missing for why antibody tests are very useful is it will allow us to confirm those that are now immune. We can’t get this from the RNA testing because it’s primarily being used on only symptomatic people at the
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Experiment in northern Italian town halts all new infections after trial(news.sky.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
Maybe don’t sell it but put the holdings into a big sovereign wealth fund? The wealth fund can rebalance its holdings later, and can work as an infrastructure bank or similar in future to support the country’s ongoing development.
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by erentz 7y ago
I’m not sure I see the point of bailing out airlines in the US. What is it? I would think the key thing for the government to consider is 1) protecting the assets of any failing airline so they can be reused when it comes time to reboot the
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by erentz 7y ago
That’s not useful either. What does lost hours mean? Is that 10% of your hours or 90% of your hours. One friend has lost 100% of her hours but somehow is still employed. Is she “lost hours” or “lost jobs”?
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by erentz 7y ago
DNC should admit the primaries are a charade and cancel them and pick the candidate they’re going to pick anyway. The process is so clearly nondemocratic. They keep finding new ways to suppress voters, fiddle with results, etc.
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by erentz 7y ago
> I am very much against it since it’s a very illogical thing to do. And that’s why the shelves are empty now and you have this problem. Panic is good. EARLY “panic” is the best. It leads to preparedness and less panic later when things
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Dashboard of the Covid-19 Virus Outbreak in Singapore(co.vid19.sg)
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by erentz 7y ago
Well actually I was thinking about Medicare for All specifically, eg: https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/412552-maj...
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by erentz 7y ago
Except it's not. Improving health care in the US is actually very centrist and polls show majority supported among independents, democrats, and republicans. Albeit slight more on the left than the right. Pretending it's partisan i
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by erentz 7y ago
> The average age of coronavirus victims in Italy is 81. The average life expectancy is 82. A proper comparison would be the average life expectancy of someone who is 81. The comparison you make gives the impression on average these peop
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Effects of weather-related social distancing on transmission of resp. viruses(medrxiv.org)
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by erentz 7y ago
You can possibly try to blame China for hiding things up until mid January. But absolutely after that you can’t. At that point the entire world had more than good enough data to see how serious this was and that it was going to become a pan
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by erentz 7y ago
SARS, while more deadly, was harder to spread, so in the end it was able to be contained.
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by erentz 7y ago
I see. That seems useless then isn't it? I mean its fine if you're looking at the longer term picture. But its completely useless for informing how to handle an emerging situation. E.g. if China's decision making was informed
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by erentz 7y ago
They’re both right. We are in a phase of exponential growth. If we don’t check it it will absolutely overwhelm the medical system. But eventually we will have crossed the peak and reach a level more like a base rate. I don’t get the “base r
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by erentz 7y ago
On top of providing some limited protection of the wearer, it also works like herd immunity in that if everyone wears them, then those that don’t yet know they’re sick are reducing their spread. At the moment because of the misinformation p
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by erentz 7y ago
It’s not way to late. The goal right now is to lower the rate of transmission to a point that the medical system can cope with it. We can still do that but every extra week of delay makes the situation worse and means the point where the me
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by erentz 7y ago
The point is not that all information must flow via some authority and be approved for release. It’s that there is a competent authority also speaking to the public. We haven’t had that in the USA, and are only now seeing states stepping in
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by erentz 7y ago
You don't reduce panic in a Florida hurricane by downplaying the wind strength until after everyone's already feeling it rattle their house. If we care about reducing panic the correct thing is not hiding information, it's ha
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Seattle Flu Study finds COVID19 likely spreading in Seattle for past 6 weeks(mobile.twitter.com)
36 points by erentz 7y ago|15 comments
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by erentz 7y ago
Their marketing claims are complete lies about the effectiveness of their product for the purpose of filtering air. People shopping for air purifiers/filters are often enough doing so because they have health problems such as allergies
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by erentz 7y ago
Over 20,000 US servicemen and women killed and wounded. Countless Afghans killed and wounded. And $2 trillion in lost opportunities for the USA.
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by erentz 7y ago
If you're genuinely interested go read how other countries such as Singapore have been handling it. For example Singapore has done a thorough job of testing, tracing, and quarantining individuals and it's slowed the spread dramati
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by erentz 7y ago
The concern is people have not been taking this seriously for the past two months. This has resulted in the US being on the back foot and only acting in a reactive manner. The CDC has fallen flat on its face and now state public health depa

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