Are you talking about my emotions personally, or is this just some general observation that conservatives and liberals just have a different emotional...
How so? No one forces an individual to work for a given corporation, they should have picked a winner or then be an intrepid self employed entrepreneu...
Yes, the policy literally kills their core base. They may very well have thought is was noble of them to sacrifice a big part of their base like that....
I can assure you that "too many calls" is not the definition of "overloading the health system". You'll see what it means in a week or two, and we can...
Yes, it's the ideology spectacularly backfiring that my purpose here is to document in real time. In December, containment was possible. In January I ...
Yes, I had understood you weren't supporting the decision. I could have made it more clear that my position is simply they are "more incompetent" than...
Did you know that Trump also makes decisions that affect how events actually unfold? And that when he sells decisions using fumbles, contradictions, e...
If you don't have a response and capitulate on the above issues, then let's move on to others. I have a question for you. Given that bailouts are a co...
For people interested in the subtler aspects of propaganda. The article links to has a little "fact check" checkmark; all the authority anyone needs o...
Did you read the link you posted? Or did you just assume it supported your conclusion that Which the link doesn't support. To make the claim that thos...
More deaths at a comparable time in those respective outbreaks? Or are you comparing final deaths of previous flu pandemics with early stage of this p...
Jost now Turns out the pandemic experts haven't heard of this approach as a "reasonable gamble". Why? because it's completely made up by propagandists...
For instance, CNN just published a piece entitled "What does Britain know about coronavirus that the rest of Europe doesn't?" which is (for critical t...
I disagree here. I think you're giving BJ too much credit. You've let him wank your chain, if only a bit, which is preventing you from fully penetrati...
Although I think observation is valid, there is also a numbers explanation that toilet paper takes up a lot of shelf space with little value density, ...
I have more time now, as I've solved my organizational strategy problems. What you haven't followed about this conversation is that we have been discu...
That's real progress. You have glimpsed for a single second what removing propaganda beliefs from your mind looks like. Perhaps there is hope for you ...
What's that "behavior" terrible for the economy? People not wanting themselves or their loved one's to die for a preventable reason. If people had jus...
No where is it implied that air travel means all international trade. But, to clarify the matter, a pandemic is not arrested by stopping all internati...
Ok, let's see in 3 weeks if you still think stopping all the flights when it would have prevented or significantly slowed the pandemic is what would h...
I thought had adequately explained my point; unfortunately not. When I say "there's no feasible way to lower population significantly (to 0.1 - 0.2 of...
Yes. People who believe only in maximizing their own gain, do not want society to frustrate their efforts. Completely coherently with this worldview t...
Well, it seems my overly long analysis wasn't long enough. I'm responding to your point that "stopping the planes" would have some crazy economic cons...
For those that don't speak half-math, the staircase has corners where the tangent to the corner is not defined. A tangent, in 2D, is a line that is "s...
This is probably best to split off in another thread, but I use neoliberal to refer to the broad western (and now global) governing consensus based on...
Case in point: 2h ago: The travel bans are happening anyway (since letting people die for preventable reasons to protect the economy only sounds good ...
The explanation you propose of why you are not confused, is exactly the confusion I am talking about. The economy, viewed as thing that keeps people a...
Yes, the effective action would have been stopping nearly all international travel, with strict quarantine for necessary repatriation or other necessa...
Yes, that it can transmit easily in networks of young people (without anyone getting serious) and it can transmit from people without symptoms, is why...
Yes we'll see if "containment light" is going to be effective. The problem from a mathematical perspective is that, without intense travel restriction...
You're welcome. Watching coronovirus unfold is like watching a dozen nuclear bombs go off in slow motion around the world. So slow compared to a nucle...
What you say here might seem reasonable, but thinking it through it is the result of confusing two kinds definitions of the economy. "Supply line disr...
Though my stockmarkatocracy mention was more aimed at how decisions are being made in the US (though also need to mention Trump has also worked out th...
Ah yes, another amazing piece of statistical analysis from the "American Thinker" by a blogger considering one single anecdote compared to the alterna...
Yes, it seems to be the mathematically perfect virus to break our systems. With Sars, Mers, and Ebola, I was actually wondering if pandemic viruses si...
Though all the numbers I've presented are at the upper bound (so, it could turn out to be not-so-bad), the main reason I conclude that it likely is th...
Yes, it does seem that with proper care most critical cases survive. Though we have seen deaths can jump very high in a single day, so deaths could ju...
Yes, delay is the goal of the current policies of closing schools and banning large events. However, unless policies are global and significant, such ...
Really depends on age. A bad outcome radically increases with age ... which will also help spread the virus exponentially when the younger generations...
Essentially all the experts agree containment has failed and it's already a pandemic. Already a week or two ago some top experts predicting 70% of the...
Re-read the conversation. You say first that I'm not reading carefully to give good feedback (to avoid false negatives), then that I'm not paying atte...
I really don't get where you're coming from. You say: Now you say: Seems straight up contradictory. What's the purpose of this discussion about the di...
As you may suspect, I'm not going to invest the time to carefully read your essays only to try to trace the lineage of each of the ideas presented. Th...
I did read your essay, but not carefully as you're only desiring feedback on where the ideas come from, or then to identify them as new, according to ...
Since Randianism is a popular faction in US style Liberterianism, then "objectivist" is making a strong association. If you don't want that associatio...
You call your philosophy "critical objectivism". Are you aware And Rand called her philosophy objectivism? Is it just a coincidence? If not, why do yo...
Yes, we seem to agree on the basic framework that society runs on ideology. By "fact of life" I mean to reference that most people with children or wh...
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