That is the interesting part here and that study you linked is informative. Especially now at hindsight. In overall ranking for example South Korea fo...
Well, surely we'll get the truth from historical studies about the events. If there are articles directly saying this, it would be interesting to see....
So why the unpreparedness? Why the lack of strategic reserves for these events? Why the disregard? You do take terrorism seriously, so why not these k...
The guy who wanted to quit immediately when Katrina happened and was replaced by a general? Yes. https://www.intoon.com/toons/2005/KeefeM20050911.jpg ...
I think there has been many sane voices here, as usually there are on a Philosophy Forum. I myself didn't think this was going to be a big issue exact...
Here I think there is a very good answer to this, as is for why Italy, Spain, France and yes, the UK also, didn't go the way of South Korea, Taiwan or...
Well, governments should do that, but likely they are just coping with keeping up the health care system now on a day-to-day and fearing how bad it wi...
I don't think that the reason had anything to do with Brexit. Besides, I think Johnson hasn't been a similar early denier like Trump was on this issue...
Actually that kind of rhetoric simply shows the inability of the regime to do anything about the pandemic, that the people don't have any rights and t...
Of course. You can be like the Philippine dictator who orders to shoot people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlBM9CRsG7U Ah yes, one of the leaders ...
And do populist politicians have those limitations? Nope. Both Bernie and Trump wouldn't like it. We have actually a great example of what in reality ...
Whatever you say, quarantines are an age old way to prevent epidemic diseases. And it works. Even if used before in Antiquity, the quarantena, 40-days...
Your understanding is wrong. You are referring to the invasion of Kiska island. There were battles, like the fight for Attu Island. https://66.media.t...
The reality of the Aluetian campaign comes through very well in the cartoons. People forget that Alaska was the state that Japan actually invaded. The...
You are correct that this isn't an anathema for the right wing and not every right-wing populist party has a problem with this. It's only the populist...
And the response is these kind of things that you feel are authoritarian. Society simply doesn't work the way that somehow without any coordination ea...
Well, people are willing to make sacrifices if that keeps a million or more from not dying. Without anything done that would be the case. I've said it...
But it's really not about basic principles. Sweden and other countries are looking at how to fight the pandemic. If your country would be attacked and...
The lock down option is basically just to flatten the curve. Not to have that overflow of patients in the hospital and put the doctors into the worst ...
Behind every scheme there is an authority. Perhaps NOS4A2 hope is now that Sweden is successful in it's permissive stance in order to get herd immunit...
To have today's politicians in charge of a monetary system, think it will be a solid base? It's meaningless to have a constitution and the rights of t...
On the contrary, we tend to try to answer very difficult questions of our complex society by preferring to anthropology and biology disregarding socio...
I'd say that was a confidence game. A system where the dollar was valued in gold and other currencies in the dollar gives the leeway for the US to be ...
Of the 88 homes for the elderly and nursing homes in the Stockholm area at least every third has corona infections. :mask: (article in Swedish) So I g...
Even a gold standard is a confidence game. I'd the best role for gold is what it has now. It's a good investment and performs well along other currenc...
The pandemic in Italy isn't contained yet. So there is that issue as now it's just really starting in the US If we assume that South Korea has beat th...
Well, you have those travel bans, right? Even for China it may be difficult to hide hundred thousand deaths (hundreds or thousands, yes). Actually Tru...
It's a good prediction...if you still have some states open and without a serious lock-down as you already have lost the containment phase and aren't ...
Trump knows that telling a lie or something crazy (like 100 000 dead is a good job) works. He's gets constantly into the focus of the media. It's the ...
A counterargument would be that how the US and the West came out of WW2. Then you had limitations on private consumption. That built a lot of hidden d...
Hmm.. I think that when your President is speaking about the option of 100 000 dying being the option where they have done a 'good job', that might sp...
The Swedish Prime minister said Swedes shouldn't panic. Some Swedish doctors are getting a bit nervous: Let's see how Sweden goes. Interesting to see....
No, actually the time of Perot. China's economy was still rather small in 1990. Or lets say that Netherlands GDP is actually large, the 17th biggest i...
Now that's a great way to put it! I always try to look at administrations beyond their figurehead leader, be it a president or a prime minister. Here ...
When I was a small boy it was great to feed birds at winter time. In the city parks there would be so tame (or so bold) little birds that they would e...
True. Yet the death toll then? For example, the Nordic countries far have more people (27 million) than New York State (19 million) and the death toll...
True. Wonder how ugly it will be when the pandemic hits in earnest Mexico City. Just got back from there before the World went upside down from the pa...
The state of New York overtook Germany in the number of infections (and deaths) as it had done earlier the United Kingdom. Compared by population, the...
The hope you have lived by for the last four years. Perhaps finally Mexicans will build that wall and we Trump-doubters have all been wrong: See Coron...
Well, they got their version of South Korea's Patient 31, the "Super-spreader". Bad luck if true, I guess. But politically correct for the current adm...
Going on a higher level of abstraction changes the game. And it's really only abstraction, not in the sense of sciences can be abstract. There isn't a...
The metaphysical by it's definition ought to lie out of reach of the scientific method as from one point of view quite well explained. Perhaps the rea...
The story continues.... See article However, not everything is at what it first seems like. Perhaps this interview with Falwell clears a little bit th...
And that's the problem. It was 12 years ago. 12 years is quite a long time in the lifespan of anybody. And typically the forecasters can be divided in...
Baden wins! People (like Bitter Crank, Benkei etc.) have made good forecasts on this thread, which was started 25th of February. I have to admit that ...
We had too our first death after implementing the lockdown. Yet I'm not sure if Sweden is totally opposite to New Zealand. I think there's a lot more ...
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