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by fma 7y ago
FWIW automanufacturers in China did this. So this isn't anything, or out of the realm of possibility (we do have more red tape in the US, i.e. see what happened w/ the Seattle Flu Study when people tried to be helpful). I don&#x27
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by fma 7y ago
It's common in China for food handlers including waitresses) to wear masks, and or a face shield. I know China doesn't have their act together on many areas of health and sanitation. But we should adopt good practices and remove t
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by fma 7y ago
I've asked this question every single day. Even w/o government intervention, a competent CEO would say "Hey there's a huge global demand for my product, and it'll likely be a domestic demand. Lets crank out these h
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by fma 7y ago
When a mask gets saturated from moisture of your breath, it loses its effectiveness. That's why they are rated for 4 hours. UV light can breakdown material.
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by fma 7y ago
We do, but it's not enough. National Strategic Stockpile has seomthing like tens of millions of masks. I believe need over 1 billion. It wasn't replenished after H1N1. Hard to convince politicians to buy things we may or may not u
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by fma 7y ago
Maybe if your only source of news was Fox News.
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by fma 7y ago
I was literally pounding my desk asking myself why is Trump taking this as a joke. I mean ok if you don't trust China, fine... But South Korea, Japan, Italy, Taiwan, Singapore. Are our allies in on the joke too? The writing was on the
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by fma 7y ago
His hotels are already providing lodging for Coronavirus patients. There's been 3 confirmed cases from there.
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by fma 7y ago
$1000 a month per person...Trump has announced at least 2 months of it. I have my salary still. My wife and I get $4000 of free money. What do you think we're going to do with it? You need to think long term what this money can do.
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by fma 7y ago
Which model of Onyx Boox do you have? Can you give a brief pro/con? I've never heard of the company but man their devices are tempting...
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by fma 7y ago
I don't own any of them, but it seems like from my Amazon search there are some with partial erase. Press a button, put pressure over the areas you want to erase..and it erases.
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by fma 7y ago
Even with Dr. Li's silencing...we (USA) still had 2 months to prepare...but didn't. Trump bought us time with blocking flights to/from China, but travel from Italy and Korea were still happening...Korea STILL is happening. Th
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by fma 7y ago
That software engineer would spend it elsewhere in the industry, likely some non-essential. That hourly worker w/o a job will pay rent and food. Software engineer...a carwash, new lawn equiment, or hell even a vacation. Giving an airli
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by fma 7y ago
And yesterday, Trump reiterated that states will be going alone in the future. He's refusing any responsibility to have a coordinated action plan. “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” https:&#x
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by fma 7y ago
Yes that's be doing done now "More than 60 manufacturers have been sent a blueprint for making up to 20,000 ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, “at speed”, as Boris Johnson called on British industry to help the government
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by fma 7y ago
Yep that is part of Yang's policy. Human value vs economic value. Right now our economy doesn't value human life. A stay at home parent who looks after the kids is judged as 0 economic value but raising productive children provide
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by fma 7y ago
Yang's policy was for citizens only. He equates it by saying citizens are a long term shareholders of the country and thus get a dividend.
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by fma 7y ago
And the equipment...my understanding is that ventilators are critical for those who have severe cases. Can't just magically wish for tens of thousands of ventilators....
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by fma 7y ago
What does PMs mean? Also it doesn't make sense to me that "we should leave masks for doctors", as experts and media are saying. The masks sold in the grocery stores and pharmacies are surgical masks. Surgical masks prevent th
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by fma 7y ago
Considering the context that I replied to is "we should also be aware of the danger of false positives", I think given the FDA source I posted (and what I've read elsewhere) I can say that there is absolutely no need to be aw
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by fma 7y ago
From the FDA itself. Note how firm they are in regards to a positive, vs how cautious they are in regards to a negative. If you have COVID-19 RNA in your body...you have the virus. What does it mean if the specimen tests positive for the vi
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by fma 7y ago
FWIW, Open Air Treatment was used to fight the 1918 flu pandemic. But I think culturally, we (Americans at least) love our HVAC. "A combination of fresh air, sunlight, scrupulous standards of hygiene, and reusable face masks appears to
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by fma 7y ago
If masks curb transmissions. And everyone wore masks. Wouldn't there be a benefit as a whole?
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by fma 7y ago
You may have misheard the MD. The current tests have a very low false positive rate. That means if the test says you have Coronavirus, you have it. There's no "burden". Where the tests are "not very accurate" is the
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by fma 7y ago
I feel like a question like this is better served doing a Google search and finding results from reputable sources...rather than asking a question on HN. Having said that, Coronavirus is consider a repository illness...so you'd probabl
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by fma 7y ago
If I recall, in addition to ignoring the patent, the Chinese company is taking the Gilead drug, repurposing it and then owning a new patent for the Corona virus...
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by fma 7y ago
I graduated 12 years ago and I still have clothes from college that I wear. The only new clothes I purchased after college was a few more dress shirt and pants for work, heavier jackets when I moved further north...I don't understand p
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by fma 7y ago
Wait, I hope you are joking because you are spreading misinformation. Japan and Korea were NEVER banned. China was and Italy was just a few days ago. Japan: level 2 (exercise caution) https://travel.state.gov/content&#x2F
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by fma 7y ago
Agreed. And where is Trump's response? We don't even have enough testing kits. We had 2 months to ramp things up.
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by fma 7y ago
If the market was good at addressing problems, our shelves wouldn't be empty of masks and hand sanitizer for the last SEVERAL weeks. Trump had to ask 3M to make more asks. There's plenty of demand. Where's the supply? Market

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