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So, last week I got a picture on a group text from my local rabbi performing a funeral of a member of the synagogue by himself because no family or fr...
April 06, 2020 at 14:35
I don't follow how an arrangement of physical matter is at all like a phenomenological state. The former is an empirically identifiable description of...
April 06, 2020 at 10:34
You're not responding still. Option A - No quarantining, the respirator capacity is overwhelmed by 1 and one person dies. Option B - Quarantining, shu...
April 05, 2020 at 22:06
But this avoids the question. If quarantining saved only 1 life and it required the economy be shut down 3 months, would you do it?
April 05, 2020 at 21:50
I could be wrong (no shit), but don't we end up with the same number eventually infected whether we isolate or not? Isolating spreads out the infectio...
April 05, 2020 at 21:22
Much of your analysis relies upon the complexity involved in using a mask. Assuming Americans really can't figure out the chess puzzle that masks impo...
April 05, 2020 at 00:38
Critical thinking is generally suspended when one is required to appeal to authority. But since we're all limited in our expertise, we must defer in c...
April 04, 2020 at 23:51
Just while in public.
April 04, 2020 at 00:17
The Chinese government is to blame for the pandemic. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devastating-lies/ It's all bullshit from t...
April 03, 2020 at 23:43
I can respect that it is offensive to some to call it a Chinese virus, so I don't do that. Where there is a disconnect with me here is that I don't se...
April 03, 2020 at 21:29
I read your post and wondered what you did to get yourself banned in those other forums and wondered what excitement we might now have in store. I see...
April 03, 2020 at 14:20
This is actually sort of funny if you so poorly worded a question that it was understood as asking why Israelis systematically murdered their children...
April 03, 2020 at 14:09
Speaking of about faces, WHO and the CDC said masks weren't effective, which was the apparent lie told because they feared doctors wouldn't have enoug...
April 02, 2020 at 17:35
Sunshine, I actually listened to the first part of that video, and he made a really interesting point, which was that masks work and that a critical d...
April 01, 2020 at 20:52
I think the concept of faith has changed dramatically from the way it was presented in ancient texts from the way we consider it now. We consider fait...
April 01, 2020 at 20:19
Totally wiped out by Coronavirus due to shirking off calls for social distancing.
March 31, 2020 at 14:28
I've got one! Make _____ matter again, and you can fill in the name of any European country.
March 31, 2020 at 02:19
The danger of that concoction is that you might cure him. There's pretty solid proof it works. To quote Trump: "“I feel good about it. That’s all it i...
March 30, 2020 at 20:40
I'm not sure where the 27% came from, but let's assume it valid. If we can screen the patients and only provide it to those who will likely not have n...
March 30, 2020 at 17:49
The problem with wishing death upon your opponents is that it creates future credibility problems when you attempt to claim you've objectively rejecte...
March 30, 2020 at 17:41
The FDA just approved hydroxychloroquine for emergency care of infected patients at Trump's insistence. We'll see if he's right. It'll be sumpin if he...
March 30, 2020 at 13:51
It'd actually be 27,000 / (8 billion x 100).
March 28, 2020 at 20:32
I provided. accurate raw data. The incorrect commentary is your own.
March 28, 2020 at 20:29
The worldwide coronavirus death rate has now risen to .00000004%.
March 28, 2020 at 16:50
My county just went to a total lock down. The only person allowed to travel is my son's girlfriend who comes and goes, but other than that, no contact...
March 28, 2020 at 00:22
I had a chance to do some research into your family tree, and note that when the first wave of European immigrant trash found its way to Ellis Island,...
March 27, 2020 at 17:42
I buy whole chickens and then cook them and eat them over the course of a few days. All I eat is chicken. Sometimes I eat beans with chicken, but then...
March 27, 2020 at 14:03
Have you considered having sex with your sister in law across the street? That'll mix things up. I don't mean to be rude with the suggestion, just bra...
March 27, 2020 at 13:58
With the current assessment of Trump as being a shit for brains fucktard through this crisis, does anyone think Hillary would have done much better, o...
March 27, 2020 at 13:51
We should have expected the former messiah to have been sexually modest, so I'm not sure if he would have accepted penetration from a stick (or an ani...
March 27, 2020 at 13:41
Everyone has grown so religious as of late, now even showing compassion for one's opponents coupled with a respect that struggle is a necessary compon...
March 27, 2020 at 13:37
A deeply religious notion. God is responsible for all. Nice.
March 27, 2020 at 13:00
I know of no other way to celebrate. We're not all professional party planners like you.
March 27, 2020 at 02:36
Assuming you think clean waterways are better than people using waterways because you have some anti-human bias. For some reason people think crowds a...
March 26, 2020 at 21:55
You're certainly passionate about nothing we were taking about. But no, the demise of McDonald's wouldn't have far reaching consequences to the US eco...
March 26, 2020 at 21:37
Wrong. The bankruptcy of McDonalds would not have a significant impact on the US economy. Nice graph showing the significance of the entire services s...
March 26, 2020 at 21:08
I don't think McDonald's, despite having delicious sandwiches, fuels the economic engine of my great nation. So yes, Uncle Sam could give the hard wor...
March 26, 2020 at 18:40
I am aware of this, having been raised in the jungle as a hunter gatherer myself, only to be rescued by missionaries and forced into hours of tedious ...
March 26, 2020 at 18:22
The government isn't producing. It's taxing the producers. If the producers are having their money redistributed, they are losing their incentive to p...
March 26, 2020 at 18:16
But I'm unique and delicate, so a snowflake I'll be. I like this post, not because I necessarily agree with it, but it's filled with optimism, maybe e...
March 26, 2020 at 18:14
I don't believe money comes from trees, so the lack of work in a society will result in its eventual failure. Would it be better in a hunter gatherer ...
March 26, 2020 at 18:01
For the record, I don't own a second home nor do I own a single diamond. I might have a watch of small value in a drawer somewhere, so I have no self-...
March 26, 2020 at 17:49
Yeah they do. They just don't admit it
March 26, 2020 at 16:56
As a general principle, why are we required to see through a plan just because it seemed reasonable at the time but not now? I get that it would shoul...
March 26, 2020 at 16:00
The ultimate question is how many people can have their suffering reduced or death averted, regardless of how that can be accomplished (e.g. by having...
March 26, 2020 at 15:50
In the US, 102 people die on average in car accidents per day. That number doesn't take into account the number left seriously injured. A single law p...
March 26, 2020 at 14:44
I think that is the prime motivation as well. The question I'm asking is what is the cost burden of a complete lock down versus other lesser forms of ...
March 26, 2020 at 14:23
Not really. You've taken it out of context and ignored just basic common sense. As I noted: I've clearly indicated the societal duty to protect others...
March 26, 2020 at 14:03
I'm sorry to hear about your son. I truly am. Whether he is in need of a respirator and cannot get one or whether he isn't in need at all, I don't kno...
March 26, 2020 at 13:48
So now we're back to class warfare? The old standby to politicize the situation and polarize it. Maybe it'll work in shutting people up who might wish...
March 26, 2020 at 12:57