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by vanniv 7y ago
that doesn't, however, create more food -- and the current problem is really that food is starting to run out, as production has fallen by 20% at the same time as supply disruptions have caused another 20% to spoil at the source
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by vanniv 7y ago
Because there is a shortage of food, and a glut of cars
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by vanniv 7y ago
Yeah, there is less and less evidence to support ventilator use for covid these days. Not none. But I don't know that I want to live through 15-25 days on a vent for a 20% chance of survival with near-certainty of severe lung damage an
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by vanniv 7y ago
This is a common and known consequence of long term ventilator use generally. It is more common a problem in cardiac patients with cardiopulmonary bypass ("pumphead syndrome") but is apparently a not-uncommon issue with ventilator
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by vanniv 7y ago
Nobody is working anymore, and nothing is produced anymore, and people are surprised that the economy "took a hit"?
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by vanniv 7y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines is once again correct: no.
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by vanniv 7y ago
No war has been declared. But in a way, you are right. We are in a war for our futures, and we are losing.
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by vanniv 7y ago
There is a distinction between quarantining someone who is sick for the duration of their illness and putting the entire population under indefinite detention and building a long-lasting deep surveillance operation with mandatory universal
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by vanniv 7y ago
It actually largely doesn't have that power. I mean, it does until challenged, and it could impose restrictions on entering government buildings -- but the government really doesn't have an unlimited authority to declare arbitrary
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by vanniv 7y ago
Those charts look very different from the Worldometer data, which shows the April 4th high water mark in new cases still holding 10 days later. Their graph is linear growth in new cases per day until 4/4, followed by a gradual but spik
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by vanniv 7y ago
Thank you for replying! It is good to hear from other people who really understand! It's hard sometimes, because even people who are sympathetic and want to help just sometimes really don't understand. It's like "I know
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by vanniv 7y ago
Yeah, it can be hard, I know for sure. Real anxiety with potent physical symptoms is very much not "all in our heads" Anxiety can be debilitating when it strikes. On top, it can create these crushing feedback loops. I mentioned a
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by vanniv 7y ago
When I was younger, I was like you describe. I'd lay awake nights kinda freaked out that I would die some day. I remember looking up life expectancy and comforting myself that I had more than 75% or whatever left. When that wasn&#x27
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by vanniv 7y ago
Yes, but. If we go with the highest realistic-seeming estimates of contagiousness and (and thus lowest of deadliness), then we can say that what NY and Italy saw was something close to worst-case. One reasoned estimate had 20% of Italians
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by vanniv 7y ago
Empathy often feels more genuine and less awkward than sympathy. It's actually really hard to express sympathy usefully. I always feel like a robot when trying. Yet once you've lived it, empathy is somehow natural
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by vanniv 7y ago
Nothing much, since 98% of those "millions" would be folks already above age 75 and with 2+ serious underlying conditions. Only around 10,000-20,000 otherwise-healthy would die even in the worst case. The economy would barely noti
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by vanniv 7y ago
15-20% of Americans have lost their jobs in the last three weeks. We don't need to import illegal labor -- there are plenty of folks who would love to be able to earn a living again. And since working in farming would qualify as "
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by vanniv 7y ago
This isn't food "waste" Have you noticed that the foods being intentionally destroyed are the very same ones that you can't buy, because they're all gone? This is not an accident. This is an intentional process, pa
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by vanniv 7y ago
There was never any intent for the mass house-arrests to be temporary. This was always intended to be a permanent consolidation of power. That's why they are destroying the food supply -- to create dependency. If your only choices are
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by vanniv 7y ago
All is progressing according to plan. Hungry people, dependent upon the state for their next meal won't fight back, even if locked in their houses eternally.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Her, you outlaw the economy, lock people in their houses, and intentionally cause a food shortage by forcing farmers to destroy their crop instead of selling it to the market, and you're surprised to find that people are starving? Of c
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by vanniv 7y ago
Never waste a crisis, eh? Now this disease is the excuse to completely obliterate any remaining fragments of liberty.
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by vanniv 7y ago
It's completely absurd that we are having farmer's destroy their produce at the same time that we have massive food shortages. The products being destroyed here are the very same ones that you can't buy at any price.
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by vanniv 7y ago
"good" like spying on everybody and sending their every action and position to the government to aid them in their totalitarian wet dream
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by vanniv 7y ago
because we don't outlaw the economy and put everybody under house arrest for the flu. COVID isn't hurting the economy at all. Turning off the economy is hurting the economy
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by vanniv 7y ago
Less than 40% of cases result in any visit to a medical professional (# medical visits is about 0.4-0.5 of # cases, but some people will need >1 medical visit)
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by vanniv 7y ago
Influenza's 0.1% isn't from clinically significant cases. Influenza is 0.1% from estimated total cases. Here's the CDC's preliminary in-season influenza report for this year, showing 39,000,000 - 56,000,000 estimated cas
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by vanniv 7y ago
This actually isn't entirely on top of the typical deaths, as many of the folks dying of COVID are folks that were very likely to have died from their other underlying conditions anyway this year. Especially now that we are counting al
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by vanniv 7y ago
... and we're at about 170,000 tests today!
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by vanniv 7y ago
To quote Randall Munroe ( https://xkcd.com/1052/ ) By dubbing Econ "Dismal Science" adherents exaggerate; The "Dismal"'s fine -- it's "Science" where they patently prevaricate.&quo

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