Trump has always been oblivious to a lot of things. Like that the FBI has as one of it's core missions to keep a watch on the actions of hostile forei...
Well, let's remember what the definition is of an epidemic: So if still in 2030 this corona virus still kills people, but it's the expected rate, then...
I agree with this. With some politicians. I'm not so sure about Swedish politicians (or the Dutch). When there were two cases in Sweden in the end of ...
I acknowledge that there is the crowd that put basically the economy before anything, but I don't the chief epidemiologist Tegnell in Sweden had (and ...
The problem is that it now days everything becomes political and too many people see a political / ideological agenda in everything. This is one of th...
I don't think so. Numbers are declining there. Here no news is good news. And in Italy the worst hit regions have been in the North, not the South. Si...
IT'S HERE ! ! ! The thing I myself and predicted a month ago has happened. Of course, the physical circumstances were now a bit different, which we di...
People can question government policies, outsourcing, just-on-time logistics and the absence strategic reserves or the health care policies without th...
People are usually critical of their country's responses. I've been positive but also critical about my country's response. There has been a lot of de...
:smile: Well, that's not my intention. But I have noticed that for quite some a time now it has been difficult especially for Americans to take of tho...
If people would learn from past mistakes, this (competent containment) would likely happen after this pandemic. People would be ready for the next one...
The only thing evident is that those places that made a serious effort on containment or a lock down before the pandemic hit in earnest have avoided t...
Yet the UK, France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands have more cases and more deaths per million, so Sweden isn't here the hardest hit in Europe ...
Yeah, many people have had doubts about the survival of the EU for decades. :groan: Last person to say that the EU is at the verge of collapse if it d...
In my view an "ethical" price is a marketing ploy and simply hypocrisy. Or what would you declare an "ethical" price? The price that a supplier has to...
Ok schopenhauer1, now I can really say that this is economics 1.0. That's why I called it "market mechanism kicks in". When there far more demand than...
Actually ordinary people are the last one's in the line. When the central bank prints more money or devalues it's currency, the first ones to benefit ...
Isn't that something that we can say after the pandemic when we have a vaccine against it? Second wave was worse with the Spanish flu, you know. ? Peo...
Classical economics was before Keynes and Keynes himself wasn't so much against classical economics, with the exception of being against Say's law. I ...
1) Keynesianism takes the view that the government can curb economic downturns by public sector replacing the falling aggregate demand in an economic ...
No. I think that you are underestimating the lengths that societies will go to prevent deaths today. Death from pestilence like this pandemic simply i...
In a few months the World will be surprisingly adapted to the pandemic. Just as now it starts to be obvious that the health care system of New York St...
You'll get the answer at the earliest in the summer and at the latest next year or so. You see, the lock-down option works instantly, but the effectiv...
Nice to hear that Sweden is close to your heart on this issue! (Btw. those strategic reserves that my country had (and Sweden hadn't), after nearly a ...
Because general social distancing has been used, all those models regarding virus epidemics can be thrown off. Spain has now 342 deaths per 1 million....
Some reasons why there wasn't a way to avoid this: 1) There was already a huge speculative bubble in the global financial markets as the 2008 "Great R...
Using the scientific method doesn't mean that one is ignorant of the limitations of the method, on the contrary. If you seek of objective answers, it ...
Some countries surely will have accurate statistics. Others not. And what's the time frame? Viruses have all the time in the World. If someone dies of...
Yeah, many people think that they can be the Trump-handlers who succeed in getting their agenda through Trump. Perfect example was Steve Bannon. Or Ru...
Well, your health care system just sucks, that's all. Sure, even in other countries there's a difference in the health between the rich and the poor. ...
Then again, there's the data how many people actually died. That is quite accurate, just like births. That the numbers are estimates is quite common i...
They won't disband. The fact that Biden is worried about the cost of universal health care means he won't do anything else than try to build on the bl...
Bernie is out. Let's see how Bernie is going to persuade his followers to vote Biden. https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2020/02/AP_20039065...
Didn't the have their first case before Italy? So I guess they have had the epidemic as Italy well before corona-virus was on everybody's radar. This ...
Likely the numbers are underestimated. But not much. I think the Chinese aren't able to hide hundreds of thousands of deaths. Thousands? Sure. If the ...
My best friend, an old schoolmate, died suddenly early last month. I was planning to go with my family and with his other friends to the funeral last ...
True or fake news? A local newspaper says that thanks to the corona-virus lock down, overall death figures in the US are collapsing: https://img.ilcdn...
Well, this naturally happened some time ago, but they did have first class equipment, not something from the 1960's. Especially with medical equipment...
That didn't last long. Sweden's administration is changing it's course, doesn't go anymore with the "lax restrictions & herd immunity" - policies, but...
Why would it? Besides, you alredy have that sharp dramatic downturn. Prior to 9/11 in the US the security checks on domestic flights were nonexistent....
Starting from a far smaller military than Belgium, that's quite a thing to do. And once it started going there was no stopping. I guess that the Sovie...
When Americans have exhausted the wrong ways, they will finally do the right thing. And that can happen quite quickly. And I'm optimistic that the sco...
Universal income is just one check in a larger picture. Basically a "cradle to the grave" social welfare system that pays your rent for a small home, ...
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