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by ethbro 7y ago
Cool! That's the cleanest link I came across to illustrate the point. I think people forget how much end-to-end manufacturing capability the military retains (especially the Navy), even in these days of outsourced procurement pressure.
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by ethbro 7y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/national-strategy... What do you think the CDC does in the years there aren't pandemics?
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by ethbro 7y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-coronavirus-test/ That's kind of like saying "I've got a motherboard, am missing an Intel CPU, but AMD has CPUs, so I'll just put one of those in there.&quo
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by ethbro 7y ago
So mothball them the same way the military does equipment. We don't have a shortage of land in this country.
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by ethbro 7y ago
In addition to enacting the CDC effort to distribute tests. That some of those tests were contaminated, or that the FDA may have made a hard call in proceeding with redistribution or calling an audible to multi-sourced testing, is a strate
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by ethbro 7y ago
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Shipyards/Norfolk/Departmen...
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by ethbro 7y ago
Also, side note, if you already signed paperwork with the new employer, press as hard as you think you can get away with, as soon and frequently as you can. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Sometimes, there's nothing they can do (hiring
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's what a shrinking population and economy does to an area.
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by ethbro 7y ago
You definitely see it in defense-related locales. Driving around Newport News, Groton, or even Birmingham is like being on another planet economically speaking. But I definitely see the point, as most of the suppliers are sized for defense,
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by ethbro 7y ago
> We had higher paid jobs (or more yield per job, a single working person could support a family, buy a house, send kids to college) in the 50s and 60s for example So, your proposal is to bomb Europe and Asia's industrial base to
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by ethbro 7y ago
One can own multiple mansions and fly around in a private jet, and still act without fear of losing those things due to risk. Or one can hedge their bets and optimize for retaining creature comforts at all costs. Point of this thread being,
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by ethbro 7y ago
He talked about this in an interview. Something to the effect of 'When I was in college, I tested how little I could live on. Turns out rice and beans are really cheap. So even if I fail, I'm not going to starve.' Admittedly,
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by ethbro 7y ago
> allowing time to clear the virus from the body without raising an excessive immune response ("cytokine storm") Citation requested, that cytokine storms are a common pathology associated with Covid-19. Because (a) I haven&#x
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by ethbro 7y ago
This is how science works. The user you linked to is making a more or less informed decision. It would be terrible to recommend their course of action to the entire world population. But if they want to self-dose, at low, arguably proven-sa
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by ethbro 7y ago
I noticed NPR commentators in the US (particularly younger, progressive ones) love the adjective "problematic." Upon reflection in the car, I literally have no idea what information they're trying to convey via its use. It se
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by ethbro 7y ago
> when the experts inevitably muck up > government doesn't seem to be reacting very quickly > If the government encouraged prices to rise until supplies were only just running out and gave the medical system enough money to bu
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by ethbro 7y ago
I understand the point you and GP are trying to make. I'm saying that the two miseries feel like apples vs oranges, given the context. You'd have to go pretty far to convince me that (even mass) economic depression is more harmful
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by ethbro 7y ago
Not sure why Health ministers are getting shade for testing positive? I'd rather my top health officials actually have contact with those under them, than sit in a glass bubble.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Economic depression and deprivation also causes death, and staggering amounts of human misery. Let's quantify things here, for a first world country with a social net. On the one hand, we have people getting evicted from their h
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by ethbro 7y ago
I saw magma on the news, so I'm hoarding that instead! It's important to get ahead of the crowd.
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by ethbro 7y ago
It'd be best if the hospital sold VIP bed insurance at some rate, and after you were a confirmed case with severe symptoms you then had priority access to a bed.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> But if the experts are imperfect and people are banned from helping themselves then there really is a problem. Why? You're comparing apples and oranges. Perfect isn't a reasonable criteria. More effective than the average p
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by ethbro 7y ago
You're ignoring the concept of wasted resources. If I buy a test kit, mask, antiviral cocktail, ICU bed for myself, despite being unlikely to need it, and there's a shortage of these resources, I've lessened the sum effective
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by ethbro 7y ago
"Not all of them" is a pretty odd spin on the difference of discovering Penicillin. The antibacterial drugs we have nowadays are fundamentally different than the whole lack thereof in 1918.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Genetic sequencing and RT-PCR are still pretty useful. You're essentially making the claim that having electricity is worthless, if there isn't enough for everyone to run a heater. Apples and oranges.
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by ethbro 7y ago
That still causes shortages. It's just increasing the ultimate gray market resale price. Looking at potential death puts gray market buyers in a weak negotiating position.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Looking back on it, the chemistry set I got in the 90s could have easily been outdone by rooting around under the kitchen sink with a copy of the AC.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Last guidance I saw from the CDC was that people without obvious symptoms were likely to only be contact-infectious, as opposed to airborne-infectious (droplets) once symptomatic. If true, social distancing, hand hygiene, and not touching o
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by ethbro 7y ago
> isolating their elderly Given the mortality rates by age bracket, this makes a huge amount of sense. Subject to their mental and emotional needs being given every consideration, of course. Assuming (1) a large amount of the public wi
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's like the 90s all over again.

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