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by lurquer 7y ago
This is no time for math or common-sense. Just stay inside, shut up, and be glad we aren’t being overrun by witches like back in Salem. Those were terrible days.. witches everywhere! Thankfully, Quick thinking politicians got rid of them.
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by lurquer 7y ago
The thing about over-reacting is that you never think you are over-reacting.
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by lurquer 7y ago
There are probably more ventilators in the US than the total number of hospitalized covid patients in China at the peak. This is getting crazy. Has anyone happened to notice that this disease is not ravaging the rest of China, malayasis, Vi
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by lurquer 7y ago
Your obtuse reply isn't even tangentially related to the line of discussion.
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by lurquer 7y ago
How many cases per 100,000 in the US versus other industrialized countries? That would be a useful statistic in evaluating if, indeed, America 'wasn't up to the task' compared to others.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Aw man, you're ruining all the fun... hehe... fedgov just distributed millions of tests... even being administered in drive-through settings. Just wait till the numbers come back. ;)
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by lurquer 7y ago
Back of the envelope math... 30,000 cases a few weeks ago in China... use the articles math... (calculating) ... everyone from here to Alpha Centauri is infected and in ICU today. That may be correct... this could all be a fever-induced hal
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by lurquer 7y ago
If there was a security that perfectly tracked the price of a commodity, why would anyone invest in the commodity? The commodity, after all, has actual costs (such as storage, insurance, and transport.) That is, if you were to buy 10,000 ba
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by lurquer 7y ago
There is a panic. Doesn't matter if its justified (its not, imho). But it is real and it has the potential to seriously damage the economy. A tanked economy will harm far more people than this virus. If the ban gives sufficient reassur
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by lurquer 7y ago
Let's start with a self-sustainable colony at the South Pole. Or, for that matter, a self-sustainable colony in Death Valley. "But even if we could, why would anyone want to?" you might ask... And that's the point. Nobod
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by lurquer 7y ago
There was a great scene in a sci-fi story from decades ago... Aliens came. A farmer, hiding in his barn, saw them snooping around. They came across a rattlesnake and were about to blast it. This -- the threat to the snake -- emboldened the
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by lurquer 7y ago
Now THAT would be s cool DIY video...
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by lurquer 7y ago
Why would you have any confidence with CDC? Go browse through the weekly bulletins from 2003 regarding the SARS 'epidemic' in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5218a2.htm You'
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by lurquer 7y ago
>I think it's pretty clear from the scientific data that the covid-19 virus is a recent zoonotic infection that jumped from bats to humans (with possibly another animal in between). I know that's what most think. But, what is t
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by lurquer 7y ago
>So now we're cool with having an additional flu going around? When people use the word 'flu' they are often referring to the illness and not the virus. That is, there are several viruses that can cause 'flu-like&#x27
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by lurquer 7y ago
>How wild that this comment is the most pretentious thing in the entire thread. Ha. Touché.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Parasite gives one the same degree of insight about Korean culture as Raising Arizona does about American culture. WTF, HackerNews? All this pretentious pontificating about the deeper meaning of a dark comedy (which could be set in ANY cult
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by lurquer 7y ago
Well, just to go along with the story... The Flood account specifically states that the water came not only from rain, but from the "fountains in the deep." Gen 7:11.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Thanks for the response. But, my question remains... what evidence is there that this virus is new as opposed to something that has been in the milieu -- causing pneumonia and deaths in the elderly -- for decades? Put aside the 'confir
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by lurquer 7y ago
Sigh... I wrote: "Not assurances of how accurate it might be..." Yet, that's exactly what you responded with... Once again, what is the false positive rate? If you don't know, so be it. But, if its 5% or so (like many si
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by lurquer 7y ago
Serious question... In light of the fact that this virus has never been tested for before, how does one know the virus hasn't been part of the popilation for centuries? How do you know your last flue wasn't in fact Covid-19? With
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by lurquer 7y ago
Before you advocate 'surveillance testing', you should provide a link to hard data showing what the false-positive rate is. Not assurances of how accurate it might be... I want a definitive false-positive rate. Until we have that,
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by lurquer 7y ago
>Conversely, there's a group of people who like to show off how sensible and level-headed they are by being able to rise above the concerns of other people. Quite right. Let us at HackerNews strive to be part of that group. ;) There
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by lurquer 7y ago
>It's like there is this thirst for disaster or some global drama everywhere, and this is not something that I would expect from Hackernews. Being somewhat of a cynic, it doesn't surprise me to see it here. HackerNews posters a
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by lurquer 7y ago
You sure about that? I bet if you showed up and tested positive for COVID-19 you'd be given an entire floor to yourself. Definitely your own room. At least for now...
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by lurquer 7y ago
The Olympics won't be cancelled. Why? Because the percentage increase of foreigners coming into Tokyo as a result of the Olympics is negligible compared to the numbers going in and out on a daily basis. I love a good end-of-the-world s
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by lurquer 7y ago
If your immune system was able to beat it once, it is primed to quickly take it out the second time (probably before you even have symptoms.) This is the entire premise behind vaccinations. Regrettably, some viruses-- such as flu -- come in
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by lurquer 7y ago
Wouldn't it be prudent to try and get the virus as soon as possible? Apparently, it's not that dangerous of a disease assuming you have medical care available. So, now is the time to get it... when you have the entire intensive ca
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by lurquer 7y ago
I wonder if all the beans and rice I bought in preparation for Y2K are still good? There's one thing prepper fantasies have in common... the impending doom never comes. It's fun to think about. But, real honestly, if the survivors
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by lurquer 7y ago
The article doesnt mention it, but the surgeon also had a brain tumour. Concerned about his fine motor skills, he had his tumor operated on WHILe he was performing brain surgery on the violinist. Amazingly, HIS surgeon was operating on the

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