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With morphine, yep.

I see, yep.

We contemplate all sorts of ways the world is not.

Yep.

I don't know. It would be a pretty fucked up thing for a family to witness and the sick person wouldn't be conscious at the end. Plus the hospital mig...

My boss's father just died in NYC. He can't go up there to be with family. It sucks.

Yep. There's "herd immunity" the minimum effort strategy and herd immunity, that thing we'll reach naturally or by vaccine.

It's too late for the US to do what SK did, and take a closer look at information coming from there. Their scientists have warned that it's not over a...

What's supposed to stop it spreading?

Correct.

Nobody wants to come out until after the wave.

It's not just the media. There's always a duplicitous crowd prepared to use an event as a vehicle for politics and propaganda: leftists, rightists, we...

Absolutely. We're lucky we can compare notes and depend on one another to give accurate data. For all the spit-balling, we're actually a pretty enligh...

Lefebvre thought Marxism is like Newtonian physics: accurate at a certain scale, but insufficient for a broader understanding of the modern world. The...

States are in charge of public health. The federal govt. just assists. I guess FEMA would have to be given a new directive and increased authority. So...

They were probably archaic. The lungs of a COVID person become fragile. You need a good computer controlled vent to avoid doing more harm than good. I...

But wouldn't it require something like a depression to break the current power structure?

Sure.

Two years from Dec. 1941. That's when the US entered. At that time, US soldiers practiced with broomsticks because they had no rifles.

We'll probably have to take your country down the toilet with us.

It took the USA two years to ramp up to effectiveness for WW2. That's not very agile.

I was reading about SK's response and I was impressed by their agility and flexibility. Americans are capable if that, but people with that kind of dr...

Oh Johns Hopkins those rightist bastards!

Yep. Plus, recall that you and I talked about the fact that the data coming out of China sounded exactly like the coronaviruses we already have. The p...

What I listened to on the way to work today https://youtu.be/zUQiUFZ5RDw

I hear you. I see other aspects to what you're saying. Different vantage point, maybe. Plus I admit to not totally grasping the Brexit stuff.

Yea, American whites and blacks are known for using "Chinese" and "Asian" interchangeably.

Yep. You can tell that Americans have a lot of respect for the Chinese, thus Trump's attacks. He believes China is what the US once was. The racism is...

That didn't happen. The disdain of Chinese authorities for human rights is well known. The propensity of the West to focus on Donald Trump rather than...

The kernel of the conversation keeps drifting so that you aren't hitting me with anything I objected to. Always wash your hands before you touch your ...

The vast majority do survive COVID-19, so that was never the issue. You're kind of talking to yourself here, which is normal. We're all inhabiting and...

Yep. Herd immunity, here we come!!!

nano-nukes

It's hard to predict what the next mutant virus will do.

I agree with everything that guy said. We aren't locking down because we know it's the right thing to do. We're doing what we think is smartest. We'll...

What, weed? That isn't going to help with dreams.

Is it painful to live in the middle of nowhere and become totally fixated on the life of another society? A ghostly, sterile love affair? Is the pain ...

Take up painting. Paint your dreams.

You don't even know who Boethius is, do you?

Yes. Hopefully their next attempts at easing off lockdown will work. If not, that will be worrisome. They will continue trying to discover the answer ...

They have a bunch of different groups. The critical theory group is doing a reading of a Lefebvre work on Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, for instance. Th...

ok

I told you what I'd want you to tell me if...

They aren't trying to kill you. Snap out of it.

That's a ray of hope. :grin:

Cool. I just meant that inevitably, patients are going to pull it off or try to adjust it and in the process fill the air with CV laden aerosol. The a...

I dont think that's going to happen. China came down off lockdown and went right back on. I think it has multiple options for transmission.

That might be why it's been so hard to contain. Plus, since we let people go out to get food, positive people are spreading it everywhere they go. Eas...

Yep.