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by pmorici 7y ago
Whats even more nuts is that N95's have taken this level of importance in healthcare at all instead of reusable P100 masks. I read a post on medium the other day about a hospital in Texas that does that and it was being treated as som
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by pmorici 7y ago
There were troubles in the debt markets brewing before this whole virus thing happened. I don't think every thing that is happening in financial markets and the economy is because of the virus. It will be blamed but it was merely the
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by pmorici 7y ago
That kind of assumes the only way to increase production is to add more machines but there is an alternative, higher utilization of existing lines. In normal times it might not be economically feasible to run 24/7 and weekends because
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by pmorici 7y ago
Even without debt to service there is are still property taxes to pay and the opportunity cost compared to investing that capital in something else like 30- year treasury bonds that pay ~1%
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by pmorici 7y ago
I agree rents will probably come down, as they do in any economic down turn, but not because of some exploitative relationship between landlord and renter as you imply. It's all supply and demand. Lower economic activity translates to
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by pmorici 7y ago
Sure I guess if you think you are in the group that won't be affected that is easy to say. If you wanted to be really crass you might say that since it has a much higher mortality rate among older people it will be a huge boon for gov
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by pmorici 7y ago
Confusion between the different mask standards and their effectiveness is also a point where I think people are talking past each other. NIH has a study on their website that says basic surgical masks are roughly equivalent in protection or
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by pmorici 7y ago
You are arguing against a straw man, literally no one is suggesting that masks by themselves are a magic cure all. If masks don't have efficacy then why do hospital staff wear them? The CDC's own guidance for air travel says tha
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by pmorici 7y ago
Testing, if they had spun up testing in January and mandated testing of every International traveler that had been to a country with an outbreak in the past two weeks they probably could ahve avoided a total shut down like we have now. The
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by pmorici 7y ago
If you use China as a guide they were shut for ~8 weeks and then opened up slowly over the course of a month.
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by pmorici 7y ago
Universal mask wearing is part of the approach they have taken in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore and it seems to have largely worked in those places. The whole "masks don't work" line being pushed by the US government and
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by pmorici 7y ago
No one I've seen make this argument seems to have any numbers to back up the "the cure is worse than the disease" argument. The do nothing case is pretty clear 1-2% of the Global population dies. Probably more because once
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by pmorici 7y ago
No doubt, point is that the way the headline is written implies wanting to wear PPE full time in the hospital is some how the irrational action of a frightened person when in fact it's really a very rational level headed thing to want
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by pmorici 7y ago
Minus the retaliation this jives with what a friend who is a doctor at a hospital in the Midwest has told me. Hospital administrators and even other doctors who should know better making obviously incompetent policies and saying obviously
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by pmorici 7y ago
Didn’t the US Government get stock in GM when they bailed it out in 2008? They ended up breaking even as the claim goes
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by pmorici 7y ago
At least initially I read that Philippines didn’t even have testing capability and had to send samples to Australia to be tested. You don’t find what you don’t look for.
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by pmorici 7y ago
Interesting. One other thing they don't mention that I found interesting when doing my own digging on dmcrypt speeds a while back is that the 'cryptosetup benchmark' command is only showing the single core performance of eac
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by pmorici 7y ago
The closest thing that people in the US might have a living memory of is the polio epidemic in the US in 1952. [0] Granted anyone who is old enough to have lived through that and remember it is probably on lock down in a nursing home right
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by pmorici 7y ago
I think they saw the warning signs. [0] [0] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/03/burr-unloaded-stock...
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by pmorici 7y ago
Was there any evidence of out breaks at the car factories when they had those shut down?
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by pmorici 7y ago
I saw a photo on twitter where a 7Eleven was selling commercial sized roles of TP that they probably normally used for their public bathroom for a few bucks.
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by pmorici 7y ago
That graph says that 1/3rd of households making less than 35k per year and 40% of households that make between 35k and 75k a year have prime membership. I'm from the mid-west. Where do you think Meijer, Schnucks, and Jewl Osco ge
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by pmorici 7y ago
Everyone who was caught unprepared and is trying to stock up on food, toilet paper, and household cleaning supplies. Your characterization of Prime Members doesn't jive with reality plenty of lower income house holds have prime member
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by pmorici 7y ago
Home toilet paper usage has probably legitimately gone way up since people were previously using the company bathroom for half their waking hours and are now instead using their home facilities.
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by pmorici 7y ago
People are getting laid off from every other job left and right I would be surprised if they have the leverage you think they do. The increase in pay for people working through this is to compensate for the perceived risk of getting sick w
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by pmorici 7y ago
You can pre-pay and print Fedex labels on their site and then just drop the package at the nearest Fedex box of which there are typically many around major cities. Zero reason to wait in any kind of line.
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by pmorici 7y ago
Depends on the median age of the population. Italy skews older.
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I understand that but the op is advocating that those things would do more than having an ample supply of PPE and an effective treatment and vaccine which is total nonsense.
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This seems obviously false. Italy has universal health coverage and they have one of the worst outbreaks and worse fatality rates of any country. This doesn't feel like the right time to promote preferred political agendas. Doesn&#x
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by pmorici 7y ago
There was a paper that discussed a L and an S strain the former of which is thought to be more deadly and was more dominate in Wuhan. In other areas the two are more equally distributed but the more deadly strain is still a large percentag

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