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Wolfman addressed that best: A President doing a press conference to address an ongoing crisis should stick to setting out the facts about what the ad...

FDA issues warnings on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine after ‘serious poisoning and death’ reported Better stop self-medicating @"Shawn". This seem...

When I'm at home alone, playing a game and losing, I often shout out "for fuck's sake". I'm not informing or communicating with anyone. It's an expres...

He's the President right now and will be until at least January 2021. Right now, whilst the pandemic is ongoing and he is the President, he should be ...

Do you have any expertise in maths or physics? I don't, but I'm pretty sure derivatives and instantaneous velocity aren't just "approximations" and "i...

Imagine you're driving and you watch the speedometer go up and down as the car speeds and slows. The instantaneous velocity is whatever it shows at a ...

I obviously don't mean the latter.

That sentence refers to the v = s/t formula. If it takes me 10 seconds to move 10 metres then my average velocity is 1m/s. But it may be that my veloc...

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He hears all this stuff that he doesn't understand and then makes some off-the-cuff remarks about possible treatments. It's like hearing that high tem...

What is this guy talking about?

Work

1. I am a man. 2. The last word in the first sentence has three letters. "The last word" in sentence 2 refers to "man" in sentence 1 but "man" in sent...

I think you've made a use-mention mistake there. 1. 1 is greater than 0 2. There is a '1' in the previous sentence The '1' in sentence 2 refers to the...

That itself is something that many philosophers disagree with. Kant thought that the single, correct answers could be determined by reason, for exampl...

The rest of your argument falls flat on anyone who doesn't believe in this Creator if that's how you intend to justify it.

Seems like rubbish anyway. They've already agreed on Jan 3rd being the adjournment date. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/DatesofSessionsofCongress....

The government can plan any executive orders it likes but they'd be invalid unless "authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States"1 And ...

This doesn't make any sense. The President has whatever powers the Constitution and the laws allow, and there are no secret laws or secret parts of th...

That's naive. The Republicans in the Senate would turn a blind eye just as they've already done.

Are you trying to to tell is that you're an alcoholic?

Speaking of drunks, I've either started drinking at work or I haven't.

The "either" in "either ... or ..." means that it can't be both. You Americans need to learn English.

Because the United States is responsible for how the United States deals with infections in the United States? Nobody is criticizing civilians for bri...

I think they're saying that just wearing a mask isn't very effective. You also need to fit it properly, dispose of it properly, wear gloves, wash hand...

This might explain it better. The short version is, most members of the public who use them don't use them properly, and there's a shortage so they sh...

@"Nobeernolife" why do you want to call it the Chinese virus so badly? It has a decided-upon name already, so use that.

I'm actually the only person who moderates here. Everyone else is just a decoy to share out user complaints.

I'm not moderate.

Isn't capitalism defined as private ownership of the means of production, and opposed to that is state ownership? If the Singapore government controls...

Does the Singapore economy count as capitalist? It's certainly a free-market economy, but I believe the government controls most of it?

Eh, student loans paid for my rent so I'm all good there.

That's a horrible thing to suggest. We're social-distancing for a reason you know. Gotta wait for the virus to die out first and then we can get back ...

My uni halls had single and shared rooms. I had a single thankfully.

What's stopping you?

Let's take McDonalds as an example. According to this they have 210,000 employees and a revenue of $21.076 billion. If we shut down McDonalds and pay ...

But the money isn't coming from trees. It's coming from the government, which in turn is coming from tax payers who would have spent that money at fas...

What do you mean by being better off? You brought up suffering before so I was just addressing that. Does it matter if some people aren’t incentivised...

I guess you'll be in favour of tax-funded UBI? Reduces the amount of suffering. If a few thousand rich people have less money to spend on second homes...

I guess not everyone subscribes to such a utilitarian position.

Mostly better thanks, although now her husband has it.

I'm not sure this really addresses the point I made. It isn't just about the loss of life. It's about hospitals not being able to cope with the massiv...

I've mentioned this before but it's not just about old people dying from the disease. It's also about the health service being overburdened. There are...

Why have so many coronavirus patients died in Italy? This might explain why some countries have much higher mortality rates. A greater proportion of t...

And 4.9% here in the UK, where a 21 year old with no apparent health issues died.

Coronavirus mortality raise has risen since I last checked. 4.5%.

During/soon after tragedy = now isn’t the time Long after tragedy = this isn’t needed I see it said about gun control too. So when is the right time?

Universal healthcare should have been obvious given that most of Europe has it.

I'm happy with my understanding. And my understanding is that you have it wrong. We're not trying to create a herd immunity by promoting the spread of...

The U.K.’s Coronavirus ‘Herd Immunity’ Debacle