Those sorts of appeals to emotions only work on your fellow travellers. I can see the difference between who say they care for others vs. those who ac...
Why not just eliminate money altogether and toss everyone in the Gulag who disagrees? No. We’ve seen the lengths despots have gone to realize their te...
How the CDC’s Restrictive Testing Guidelines Hid the Coronavirus Epidemic Testing Blunders Crippled US Response as Coronavirus Spread How U.S. coronav...
I have picked up on it. My argument is that I am suspicious of step 3 for the reasons I’ve already stated. As for comparing it to the Spanish flu, I h...
It’s not wrong. South Korea didn’t need to put their economy on hold and to enact draconian measures. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/coronavi...
It's a dangerous lie that it is only corporations panicking about "bottom lines". Many of us are without work, and if this continues much longer, will...
Children are largely unlikely to be affected by the disease itself but we are going to hand them an economy that we’ve ruined. No amount of technocrat...
I can’t imagine the reasoning that went into eating/drinking fishbowl cleaner. Yeah, I’ve heard that too about tonic water. Time to head out and buy a...
Do you think they put Trump in there for any other reason? They posted that for the same reason you posted it, and that almost certainly wasn’t to inf...
I wonder what things such as corporate diversity, airline emissions, cancelling the debt of the Postal Service, and election auditing have to do with ...
Democrats have decided to shirk a Senate vote on worker relief so Nancy Pelosi could introduce a 1200-page Democratic policy wishlist. They’re playing...
Do you think it is possible that a “second wave” may hit? that after all the huddling indoors, bailouts and lockdowns, that it may have been all for n...
Sick and evil stuff. But schadenfreude has been the going rate among this species of dogma for quite some time now, long before the pandemic began. We...
Hopefully higher living standards and reduction in poverty will go with it. I suspect that, if cheap labor ever runs out worldwide, it will become les...
It’s more a race to the top. Ever since China entered the WTO their manufacturing costs have been rising along with their wages and standard of living...
One of the reasons Clinton fought hard to get China to be a part of the WTO was that he wanted them to be more like us, liberalized, on the path to fr...
I know someone of around that age who has/had it and experienced only minor symptoms, the worst being fatigue. Godspeed to you and your mother, friend...
I agree with you on that one. Just today or yesterday the DOJ was trying to petition congress to give them emergency powers, threatening habeas corpus...
In France one requires a form to leave the house. In the UK, one can be arbitrarily detained if he is suspected of being infected. Curfews, lockdowns,...
So did the popular snake-oil psychic Sylvia Browne. “In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lu...
All good questions. But I do not think we can blame the employer here unless he himself infects others with the virus. Rather, wouldn't it be unethica...
I do think the employer needs to consider the ramifications. He'll need to weigh the risks of operating in a confined space during a pandemic with the...
I don't think we can say the employer makes people come to work, as if pointing a gun at their head. They certainly risk losing their employment if th...
Some interesting data from Iceland and their large-scale testing efforts.. https://www.government.is/news/article/2020/03/15/Large-scale-testing-of-ge...
The fatality rate of covid19 in Wuhan, China is now down to 1.4%, according to a Nature study. But some suspect it will be even lower, possibly lower ...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democrats-claim-analysis/story?id=69233170 Art of the deal, baby. You’re wrong, actually. https:...
If Trump’s optimism is all you need to blame Trump for the death of Americans, then I’m afraid I cannot do much to convince you otherwise. But I can d...
That you readily gobble misinformation so long as it serves your bias concerns me very little. Even now, after showing that the “I am not responsible”...
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