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by rpiguy 6y ago
Hey if you want to live in a world where everything has to be an after school special with a moral message attached to it, more power to ya. If you want to do good, be good, don't preach to others.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
People who defend virtue signaling generally only agree with it when "virtues" they agree with are being signaled. For example, what if instead of non-stop left-wing virtue signaling, enormous, multi-billion dollar companies were
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Most places will not test you because if you know you have been exposed you are expected to self-quarantine for 14 days regardless. Almost all testing centers require that you have symptoms. Most States have not and are not going to impleme
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Chilling? He is absolutely right. The governors are weak. They have no problem arresting Christians and Jews for peaceably worshipping together during a pandemic, but sitting back while rioters burn down city hall, murder a federal officer
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by rpiguy 6y ago
No one on thedonal.win thought Floyd wasn't asphyxiated by Chauvin and Trump supporters are as appalled and enraged as anyone else with Chauvin's murder of Floyd. Even right wing sites like PJ Media railed that it took 3 days to a
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Undergrad GPA lower than yours. Also wildly successful. There is a strong correlation between academic rigor and success, but there will always be outliers like us. Natural talent, social skills, blind luck, network, etc. are all important
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Agree. People who pride themselves on being able to see fine distinctions and shades of gray, seem unable to comprehend that a virtual space, run by a private company, which is itself running on partially publicly funded infrastructure is a
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Haha. They were pretty cool with it for the 2-4 weeks before real data started rolling in. Now most people want to open up and are aghast with the shut down.
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I suspect it kills in a number of ways and immune response is just one of them. Fortunately it is unlikely to kill you unless you are very old.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
According to the Alabama department of public health as of 5 hours ago there are only 571 people in ICU. https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/covid19/assets/cov-al-ca... According to CDC data, 81% of deaths from CO
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Flattening the curve to preserve hospital beds, ,at least in the US, only really applied to NYC and northern New Jersey. Nowhere else in the country ever even came close to overwhelming the hospitals. If NJ and NYC had shut down public tran
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by rpiguy 6y ago
I agree, but sadly it will likely be ignored here in the US.
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This was suggested in the US in March and confirmed by Monash University in Australia in April. We ignored it in the US because our medical community is almost completely focused on treating the most severe cases, people who were already ve
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Well the mortality difference by age is stunning: According to CDC data, 81% of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are people over 65 years old, most with preexisting conditions. If you add in 55-64-year-olds that number jumps to 93%
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by rpiguy 6y ago
While I agree that the press is exaggerating the deadliness of the disease, this number is also misleading. As many will point out, the vast majority of US citizens have at least one comorbidity (obesity, diabetes, heart trouble, smoking, a
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by rpiguy 6y ago
To show how quickly things move that article from four weeks ago is already woefully out of date with the CDC having since revised down numbers and Dr. Birx herself criticizing the CDC for inflating them. The number of cases is exploding up
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Virtue signaling at its finest. Look how good I am! I am so much wiser! I despise people who think differently! Nevermind the actual infection rate in Scalzi’s county (which is minuscule). I am going to base my behavior off of mortality rat
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Donald Knuth would be proud! (it appears proper commenting is very important to the AI's ability to generate code)
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by rpiguy 6y ago
I also have a semantic quibble with the author's choice of words. It is an ancient platform that can do some modern things very well.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
This was "discovered" in March in the US, and then "discovered" again in April by Monash University in Australia. The Ivermectin plus Doxycycline was proposed almost immediately as an alternative to chloroquine. Doctors
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Read the novel Skunkworks for a fantastic account of what the engineers had to overcome.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Vitamin D appears to be playing a large role as well. I wondered why France wasn't hit harder and all I could come up with was wine (antioxidant) and cheese (vitamin D from dairy). India is another country that follows this pattern tum
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The virus appears to impair hematic function in the lungs. The oxygen builds up, and it is quite caustic. It creates what are called ground glass bodies. Since the oxygen is trapped in the lungs and does not move the blood very efficiently,
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Partially agree with this. It is not uncommon for a virus to sneak into the brain or other organs, but SARS COV2 is a little different in that it specifically attacks receptors found in all those areas. It isn't just a bi-product of th
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Normally I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, as young people do incredibly stupid things. I was prepared to try and find a grain of sympathy for this guy and then read that he participated in a drive by shooting of a synagogue. I
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by rpiguy 6y ago
I do think a vaccine will be made available and likely sooner than anyone is predicting, but it will not be mandatory and if states or employers try to make it mandatory they will held up in lawsuits for years. I could see a future where, l
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by rpiguy 6y ago
By the way there was an election in Wisconsin I think some 400,000 people came out to vote, and there was no surge in Covid patients afterword.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Washington State also started on leftward trajectory in the 90s after mail in voting. Of course, correlation is not causation...
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by rpiguy 6y ago
You only need to open enough envelopes to get the result you want and then throw the rest in the trash. Some mail in ballots have party identification on them, so you can ignore envelopes from the opposing party. Identification is based on
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The idea that a vaccine could be mandatory. But thank you for agreeing we are heading toward herd immunity.

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