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by natrik 6y ago
Interesting, I agree the 91% of ICU capacity does seem alarming, but what aspect of that is hospitals optimizing for maximal usage of beds for financial reasons? I would want to see how much an ICU was used in previous years and how often i
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by natrik 6y ago
The article and the quote from the article you linked do not support your statement: "Arizona's ICUs quickly reached capacity". The article is dated May 11. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?
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by natrik 6y ago
I've noticed it especially on small Reddit communities for cities where constant narrative shifting has occurred: from flattening the curve and potential high death rates to we don't know the side effects of the virus and potentia
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by natrik 6y ago
Snowflake, SumoLogic, Asana, Unity all filed S-1's today. 4 relatively large, well known companies filing IPO's today.
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by natrik 6y ago
How do you ensure 1 person does not buy the book and resell for cheaper or distribute for free?
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by natrik 6y ago
From another article linked in the one above: "In late February, CDC director Robert Redfield testified before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and was asked if healthy people should wear masks. “No,” Redfield responded. The day
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by natrik 6y ago
I use goodreads as well and find the UI/UX very old fashioned. The lag is astonishing as well. What are some issues you have with it?
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by natrik 6y ago
Agree that at the moment Sweden seems to have done the wrong thing compared to its neighbours, Norway, Denmark, etc. However Anders Tegnell's strategy was to aim for the best long term outcome, not necessarily minimizing deaths in the
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by natrik 6y ago
At least for me and many people I've talked to, it's less about ignoring, but more about how to deal with it in a feasible manner. This includes taking into account economic affects, long term feasibility, effectiveness of lockdow
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by natrik 6y ago
I saw this posted the other day: https://mobile.twitter.com/GlennLoury/status/128806975173083... which also provides examples.
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by natrik 6y ago
Another horrible piece I've had the displeasure of reading. "According to a study by Cambridge University’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy, the number of Britons self-reporting as “happy” halved in just three weeks at the sta
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by natrik 6y ago
I find it interesting how daily new deaths in Sweden seem to have levelled off to a low level. Of course there could be a second wave in the fall, but I think Sweden might have reached the low herd immunity threshold. https://www
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by natrik 6y ago
When I arrived as a foreign-exchange student in Dijon, France, I was bombarded with war stories about run-ins with the infamous French bureaucracy. I got my first taste of it standing in line to enroll in my classes. You stand in line for t
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by natrik 6y ago
Any thoughts on the importance of deleting the blog when various backups such as archive.org exist?
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by natrik 6y ago
There was no health care disaster in New York. I assume you mean hospitals being overrun.
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by natrik 6y ago
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1268071090389053440
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by natrik 6y ago
/u/StruggleBus67 -7 points 18 hours ago >Tinted windows, have to verify not occupied, 200$ insurance claim vs. potential gun in the back of your neck, stop being ignorant
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by natrik 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5uSQxbNzPo&t=1s NYC resident saying police is letting people loot without firing tear gas/rubber bullets in SOHO. That the only way the police could have intervened to stop the riot
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by natrik 6y ago
>Under this method, pigs at the company’s rural Grundy County facility are being “depopulated,” using the industry’s jargon, by sealing off all airways to their barns and inserting steam into them, intensifying the heat and humidity insi
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by natrik 6y ago
Playing devil's advocate, how are we sure excess deaths are due to covid and not the lockdowns instead? (Suicides, cancelled surgeries, etc.)
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by natrik 6y ago
From a reddit comment: >An epidemiologist, Dr. Carina Blackmore, was the one who contacted the IT director to make the change. Then the IT director contacted Rebekah Jones to actually implement the change and she threw a fit. There is no
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by natrik 6y ago
Smoking and obesity put other people's lives in danger as well, whether it be due to second hand smoke or being a burden on the healthcare system and diverting resources. There have been countless discussions already about at risk grou
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by natrik 6y ago
Non Paywall Mirror: https://archive.fo/AVjMe Not too much in this piece other than what's been said in countless HN discussions already.
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by natrik 6y ago
Lots of things could explain it. Here are some: - The way deaths are counted in each state - Daily Temperature - Comorbidity percentage difference for residents - https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-T
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by natrik 6y ago
https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track... 89% of total fatalities in New York have at least 1 comorbidity. I wonder to what extent anyone with unknown cause of death or death due to cancer, but al
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by natrik 6y ago
I get the point you're trying to make with the data, but could you expand more on "healing cancer and heart attacks."? Not sure I follow
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by natrik 7y ago
People are not going to be 'dropping like flies'. I doubt anti vaxxers jump for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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by natrik 7y ago
Agree with mathdev here. Looking at the data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ It seems logical to state, at least within the US, the accuracy of deaths due to COVID-19 are more accurate than total cas
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by natrik 7y ago
https://www.yelp.com/extortion Lot of misinformation out there.
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by natrik 7y ago
They wouldn't ban trucks carrying cargo, supplies, etc.

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