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by pinkfoot 6y ago
The COBRA meetings Her Majesty's cabinet sounds important, secretive, and just a bit ominous. Its actually just meetings held in "Cabinet Office Briefing Room A".
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Addressed in the article. But feel free to add the 38% USG pensioner discount (or 100% if you care). You'll still come out at a very, very large number.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Er no, as TFA mentions, when the USG they tried that American protested with signs saying "Granny for sale". Sufficiently that the USG dropped the 'pensioner discount'. You'd have to argue why its suddenly OK now. Y
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Value of a Statistical Life "VISCUSI: If you multiply the 1 million lives saved [Trump], and if the lives are worth $10 million each [OHSA], the result is $10 trillion. … Ten trillion dollars is half of the U.S. GDP, which means that i
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Very good question.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
A fair amount of the phosphorus in the Amazon comes from dust storms originating in the Sahara. [1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
And if China gets a secondary wave of infection from negligence in the USA? Then what? The Treasury is going is going to cut China a cheque?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Your average insurance company's software team behaves like this? Whilst tweaking the payroll software? Because, if you really, really want gender parity, most programmers don't work at Uber or Snapchat. They work in mundane jobs
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
All which can be fixed in five minutes.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Wait until we try insist on parents hiring male au pairs for their daughters. Especially if they are bald, short, and plump. Then you will see gender bias. :)
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> things that are designed for everyone should have a diverse set of eyes on them. Teaching, especially pre-school teaching, is going to be tough to make attractive for men. And for a lot of parents too.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> The problem is that our community isn’t very friendly or welcoming to women Be precise, how is your community not friendly to women in ways you cannot fix in five minutes? If its obvious, its trivial to list them, if its subtle then it
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
You also have to factor in how much the US bombing of Cambodia led to the conditions ripe for the Khmer Rouge. IIRC Cambodia is the most bombed country in history.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
… and to those at the borders clamouring to get in.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
… because the the rest of us lack empathy and are too dumb to be enable to imagine anything that we don't experience ourselves?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Notice that veterans affairs and a lot of the DOE is filed under 'not military'.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> My guess is… What a well reasoned rebuttal.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
You are aware that alcohol is not contagious?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> First they came for the Communists... When do they come for the innumerate conspiracy theorists?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
And only 5,367,580 people to share it amongst. The city I live in has nearly twice the people and making more at an astonishing rate.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
What make you sure?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
They aren't, but you are. Right
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Why is a intelligent, qualified, experienced team of epidemiologists "only in a position to identify the (medical) benefits of the lockdown and not the costs." After all, you were able to recognise both parameters?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
This question has an answer: Hospitals and other resources take a finite time to construct and they can only be constructed in linear time. That is to say, the number of new hospitals is not a function of the number of existing hospitals. N
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Of course not, and here is why: lockdown is not binary, there are degrees of lockdown. So, when you help us all out with the model of deaths-by-lockdown that informed your decision, we can all benefit from it by comparing it against the lat
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Oh, I do. So show us the model (we still do that right?) when the death by virus numbers are less than the death by poverty numbers. But you can't becuase you didn't. You just "feel" its time.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Ok, I'll bite: where are the coffins of all the people who have died in the last four weeks from not working? Because I can show you lots of coffins from people in NY and Italy who went to work whilst the pandemic was raging.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
And he might still be right. But - and here is the rub - it will be because the lockdown interrupted person-to-person transfers, and not because the inert bases making up the virus suddenly decided all by themselves, and all over the world,
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
To which ever rational scientist downvoted me, here are the good doctors' claims from 26th [1] : "So if you look at California—these numbers are from yesterday—we have 33,865 COVID cases, out of a total of 280,900 total tested. Th
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Not this bunch for sure: https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/debunking-bakersfield-...

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