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OK. Democracy involves people coming together to speak with one voice. Science does that too. Suppose you have a community of people who don't particu...

I like this answer so much that I'd like to agree with it, but I really don't. What you're describing with mention of experimentation is the behavior ...

They were all freemasons, you know.

When was the search for truth an American value? Could you give me some background on that?

Science arrives at facts democratically? That's an interesting perspective. When do they vote? I don't think so. Democracy does fine with a religious ...

Or maybe I'm wrong. What do you think religious tolerance entails in terms of attitudes toward truth?

Sanctimony, yum. I'm doing a mural inspired by sashiko mending. It's cool.

Eh, you're just angry that no one descended to marshall law out of this micro-apocalypse.

I think you're like NOS, sections of your soul are starting to rot. Do some art.

The greatest mountain fills a trench Off the continental shelf In time

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Maybe not an exit, just a split. Germany, Spain, and Italy with a few others on one side, France and some Nordic states on the other.

I think I'm failing to realize that. What's the connection? And have you thought of returning to your motherland?

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Why do I feel like he left that little egg and won't be back?

@"rob staszewski" A lot. There would need to be a leader.

True.

I'm not working today because my hospital's census is low. Why? Is it because this virus is killed by UV light and it's a bright sunny day? I don't kn...

Then you're still wrong. Good social distancing is not the reason the models are wrong.

No, the one that assumed optimum social distancing predicted 81000 deaths by August. Go back and listen to what that Swedish epidemiologist said about...

True there were political motives, but the American models were wrong. Even the "wildly optimistic" ones overshot it. I could go on and on about the t...

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Lack of evidence is evidence of lack?

All you needed to do was point out the LA Times' lack of justification, but you didn't do that. Instead, you made an unsubstantiated claim when you sa...

You're confident. Are you there in Wuhan by chance?

Aren't you already part Asian? We are (I am). With no flowers You are free as a willow. --Kaga no Chiyo

This is the sort of thing your country has to look forward to.

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Yep.

The Chinese Communist Party Will soon be Your master

A hundred different gourds From the mind Of one vine --Kaga no Chiyo

The summer grass! ’Tis all that’s left Of ancient warriors’ dreams -Matsuo Basho

The federal government's power grew over time with a sequence of crises. It's you who is creating myths.

Yep. Core nations sneeze, developing nations get pneumonia.

On dead branches Crows remain perched At autumn's end -- Matsuo Basho

The main thing is to not ask people what they mean and just assume they don't care about human life. Norfolk? For a second I thought you meant Virgini...

If we knew then what we know now, I dont think we would have. Some places needed it and some didn't. We took the most conservative approach in the fac...

Like life, it was pointless and short, but still beautiful.

Just lazy. Millennials didn't get their shit together and actually vote in enough numbers to make a difference.

The idea of a corporation comes from Roman law and was part of the re-emergence of cities in Medieval Europe. Cool!

I think you need to watch this video: https://youtu.be/neWPK3fRg5c

100 years from now nobody will care. My new motto.

They have a lot of critically ill. Lot of older men? Lot of smokers? Another invisible difference might be in how long an ICU team waits before giving...

True

Would a raging liberal, by any other name, not still be a pain in the ass? :smile:

We'll never see the reason Bernie wouldn't win: the big GOP attack. Chomsky explained this, that they would get anti-semitic and burn the word "social...

Bill Gates spends billions to cut vaccine realization down by months.

Now we just need that vaccine.

China ended lockdown in Wuhan and sent 1000 vents to NYC. Yay!

...aaaand if you end up face up in an ICU on life support, it's quite possibly going to be a Republican looking down on your almost corpse of a self, ...