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The WaPo article: The point isn’t that people shouldn’t take this lightly; it’s that precautions can work to prevent the country from realizing anythi...
March 27, 2020 at 10:21
First of all, the operative word in the quote is "ultimately", e.g. once the disease has become endemic. Second, the article is not about what you're ...
March 27, 2020 at 10:11
Corona. Next stop Brasil. I think the contenders for most deaths in the short term are Brasil and Iran. In the long run it will be India and China but...
March 27, 2020 at 06:33
Educate yourself instead of posting crap and then requiring me to refute the nonsense you post. Start here: https://nextstrain.org/
March 27, 2020 at 05:30
You're missing the forest for the trees. Cuomo totally fucked up too. Except he wasn't the one actively downplaying the issue while being briefed abou...
March 26, 2020 at 23:07
And we have a winner! This of course has nothing to do with Trump. (cue the apologists). I called Trump a danger 3 years ago because we all knew the e...
March 26, 2020 at 22:36
No. And take your tin foil hat conspiracies somewhere else.
March 26, 2020 at 20:31
Sorry, that comment wasn't very clear. Of those infected about 20% require some kind of hospital care. And a percentage of that intensive care.
March 26, 2020 at 11:35
start a political party.
March 26, 2020 at 05:35
That first link is definitely interesting. What I'm missing from it though, is the assessment of the people requiring intensive care but who aren't go...
March 26, 2020 at 05:32
patients.
March 26, 2020 at 05:17
My neighbour is an anithesist and had a 2 week crash course for IC procedures and machines. He's also build a bespoke respiratory system using face co...
March 25, 2020 at 21:14
What's up with the case reporting in the US? Only 7 deaths today? How is this possible?
March 25, 2020 at 19:46
I'm not familiar enough with the NATO rules on assistance to say one way or the other but it's probably moot: NATO members are in trouble themselves.
March 25, 2020 at 19:44
You're currently not even assessed in Northern Italy if you are older than 65 or have comorbidity. Not necessarily a reply to you but to the general d...
March 25, 2020 at 18:39
Slap on the wrist? How about executed? What's the appropriate punishment here?
March 25, 2020 at 05:38
True. The automated washing machine is from 1904.
March 24, 2020 at 12:44
The invention of the oil lamp and candles did not lead to night life. Only the light bulb did and that's why it's a structural change (and the reason ...
March 24, 2020 at 11:25
I didn't say better though. The car is again just an implementation that increases speed (communication and travel). The car as a specific application...
March 24, 2020 at 09:57
The speed of travel, finance and communication has been increasing for 4000 years. So no, I don't consider the advent of internet revolutionary at all...
March 24, 2020 at 09:23
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March 24, 2020 at 07:59
The boiling frog is a fable. Anyhoo, not everything is a revolution of course. And I didn't mean it to be. It's not as if the labour participation of ...
March 24, 2020 at 07:56
They're not illegal if they have a right to asylum. But nice xenophobism.
March 24, 2020 at 07:10
Of course, it's all one big bubble. I can tell you're super informed about mostly nothing so that claim about mainstream media in Europe is baseless a...
March 24, 2020 at 07:02
Sigh. I'm Dutch. I'm not in any US-centred bubble. Which makes it so easy for me to render judgment. No horse in the race and all that. I'm really gla...
March 24, 2020 at 06:55
We should just bail out corporations without any strings attached. Again.
March 24, 2020 at 06:49
It's the borders of the Schengen area which are closed for non-Schengen countries. So existing borders are closed. The border between the Netherlands ...
March 24, 2020 at 06:45
These are all wars to maintain the status quo. They're meaningful to those receiving the bombs of course but for the West they mean very little. Life ...
March 24, 2020 at 05:42
You're pretty new here so you don't know what gets my blood pressure up. I certainly don't swear with cutesy made up names for people when I'm angry. ...
March 23, 2020 at 22:03
Trump on 17 March : “I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” Trump on...
March 23, 2020 at 21:58
Glad Orange-oetan is sticking with you. Also, I'm a reflexive kind of guy and quite allergic to arrogance. I don't like arrogant people, so there's no...
March 23, 2020 at 21:53
Remind me again. TDS stands for Trump Defense Syndrome endemic under Trumpanzees right? I don't see why companies ought to be bailed out. If taxpayers...
March 23, 2020 at 21:48
No, I said that if you have a travel ban for foreign nationals is doesn't make sense to not check us nationals coming in. Something a lot of countries...
March 23, 2020 at 20:30
Yeah, but no. https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/newpage_00032.html
March 23, 2020 at 20:02
Again, if you think I'm hoping for that, you haven't been reading my posts. I'm warning you and I have been warning you and Tiff since before Trump wa...
March 23, 2020 at 19:55
hmmm... You're asking me this because you are at a loss of examples of countries who are managing the disease well? What did Japan do? Or South Korea?...
March 23, 2020 at 19:33
So, life as normal. These are changes in degree, not fundamental. The economic structure in society remains the same, the real politik approach remain...
March 23, 2020 at 19:06
How did terrorism change our lives? I haven't experienced any fundamental changes except air travel became more of a hassle.
March 23, 2020 at 16:59
If it's anybody you know, I'd advise them to fly via Schiphol. The Netherlands is still slightly more relaxed than surrounding countries.
March 23, 2020 at 16:36
What's retarded is not seeing Trump's culpability in the fiasco running its course in the US right now and instead you resort to calling me names twic...
March 23, 2020 at 16:30
Right. So if I can divert a train from only hitting 50 people instead of 100, I'm not to blame if it hits all 100 of them? Sound ethics. Carry on. :up...
March 23, 2020 at 16:25
As to this thread. Nothing is going to change except some technocratic tweedling and fiddling to make sure the system continues to work with as little...
March 23, 2020 at 16:19
It's wrong. On the official Dutch website from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: https://www.nederlandwereldwijd.nl/landen/frankrijk/reizen/reisadvies#...
March 23, 2020 at 16:09
There are no closed borders as far as I'm aware. I can jump in my car and drive to France right now. Gas stations are still open as well. It's not sma...
March 23, 2020 at 15:56
What gives you that idea? I can still travel from the Netherlands to other EU countries without problems provided that I meet the requirements of a lo...
March 23, 2020 at 14:54
OK snowflake. Or instead you can take that comment in the context that it was made, with fellow Trumpanzees defending the orange-oetan's ineptitude wi...
March 23, 2020 at 12:18
You can eradicate false positives by retesting. In the Netherlands each sample is tested twice by separate laboraties to lower the likelihood of false...
March 23, 2020 at 09:22
If you think I think it's a game, you haven't read my posts.
March 23, 2020 at 05:09
Thanks to Trump, the USA seems to be winning the corona Olympics. Now in third place. No harm no foul. He was just being optimistic. :shade:
March 23, 2020 at 01:58
people will abuse the loophole it creates as the Italians did and why they're in a stricter lock down.
March 23, 2020 at 01:39