DataWorker

Thereby increasing corporate profit at expense of the worker and taxpayers. Moreover, it benefits the Ivy League at the expense of all other universities. There’s a need to differentiate and the Harvard name becomes the criteria rather than the education or diploma itself.

We have way too many lawyers.

No, it’s not. The push for maintaining manufacturing capacity is not about jobs though that’s been one way to try to frame it for a myopic populace. I thought more people would figure that out given PPE shortages and the inability to produce enough medications for our citizens but people need to simplify and straw man the issue. It’s more importantly a national security and strategic consideration. But many cannot see that far for some reason.

Come a long way since Aaron Swartz. Let’s hope the reform continues.

Especially in a culture that puts the individual and his “needs” above those of the larger group. But why should the public good be a consideration?

But did we actually have “politicians pushing drugs”? “Push” sounds to me like “suggest people take.” I’m certain that the president didn’t tell anybody to take anything. He said almost verbatim what dr fauci was saying elsewhere at that same point in time. (See dr fauci on the jama podcast earlier that same week.) I won’t argue that the president has not oversold optimism at every juncture, but to say he “pushed” people to take plaquinil (illegally?) is either delusional or dishonest.

I seem to recall that we were shipping a lot of masks to China back in January, perhaps that’s part of the reason.

The conviction rate is a great example. “Very good reason” like Aaron Swartz trying to share scientific literature with the public?

There may be safer zinc ionophors and we have to reserve some of the chloroquine supply for the important people. Thankfully many doctors are smarter than our news media workers.

Any cite for your claim placebo can’t prevent a covid death? That seems unlikely given how powerful and common the placebo effect seems to be.

Nobody thinks they are complicit but in reality we all are. Some can accept this while others let the cognitive dissonance drive their behavior in convoluted and hard to discern ways. Redemption only comes after accepting that we’re born of original sin. Anybody who supports or uses non-free software has worked to finance the amoral tech decision making that you’re decrying. Even Stallman makes compromises. Welcome to modernity.

Lockdowns vs no lockdown is an false dichotomy. The lockdown didn’t impact many people like myself, and many people can still be financially impacted even without a lockdown. Some people and businesses have actually been thriving. So your model is too black and white and doesn’t really match reality.

Also politicians. They too are trying to fight the good fight and help their community. Pretty much any position of authority attracts a certain mindset yes, but also changes the person who assumes that authority.

The point was exactly that, to keep low wage people from going back to work. They set the rates higher to disincentivize people going back to work. Don’t blame people for responding to public policy the way they’re intended to respond, blame the policy. (Also it comes across as petty and ignorant to blame the working poor for their plight. With wealth comes poverty.)

They were wiring large amounts of money to people in Oklahoma rather than their own state. That there is no effort put into preventing fraud, which was guaranteed to happen, is down to negligence of the state government. Part of that is on the voters who allocate tax dollars in an idiotic fashion whenever given the chance.

“Don’t usually occur”

They do. People write code to create all sorts of bastardized abominations of “csv” or tab delim or whatever. It’s why the featured article gets reposted every few years. You can define a standard for csv files, but then Excel does it’s own thing and here we are.

Young people with thrombosi are very rare, so not high risk from that standpoint. As an individual that might be assessed high risk, but in aggregate it is not.

A lot of coughing and high risk individuals at the symphony though, unfortunately.

If they are big in the sense of having a lot of employees then this is good news. If they are heavily capitalized low employee count businesses like a lot of tech startups, then that’s a bad thing.

The population has increased and the economy is at an all time high. Shouldn’t we expect more talented artists?

Korean doctors are able to speak for themselves and we should rely on the studies themselves to inform discussion, not hearsay from a third party source about “scientists agree” whatever the heck that means. What do the Korean doctors who are reporting the alleged reinfection think.

I don’t get how they would “force you with them.” Nobody cares if you choose to self isolate. If you like this there’s no reason you ever need to go back. For many people there has been no change and will be no change, if things ever do reopen completely.

Wouldn’t ecg changes be plausibly the result of the virus itself? I haven’t read the paper so maybe they go into greater detail but it would be important to know whether such changes were seen in the control group as attrition/discontinuance is critically important to any study.

Most mainstream news has moved away from their earlier “we should more worried about the flu” consensus they were pushing during the democratic primaries.

Agree. This will ultimately be horrible for the environment. Environmental regulations will fall by the wayside and look at the price of oil.

Multiple sources indicate that’s the severe percentage, and we know a bit about untreated ards.

Moreover, deaths from lack of capacity will not be limited to covid cases. And many of the current non-covid icu cases may be exposed to medical staff who are not being tested (in the USA) and die that way. This is what happens in nursing facilities like Seattle.

Maybe it is irrational buyers who are getting the benefit this time. A lot of unknowns right now. Past performance does not always predict future gains.

Correct. The death rate doesn’t really matter. What matters is no herd immunity, high r0 and the percent of cases that are severe. I’d also add that human error and the inexplicable need to not sound alarmist and to conform to peer pressure is another huge factor. Nobody wants to take responsibility.

Preemptive social distancing to slow the spread. This is done by educating the public about the probabilities involved thus increasing fear, increase social distancing and decreasing the r0, maybe even enough to avert the coming pandemic. The downside to this is a short term economic hit, the upside is using the “window of opportunity,” as the WHO calls this interim period, to avert or at least slow the spread. A number of helpful policies might come As the result of public demand for more potent measures. For instance greater travel restrictions like those being enacted in other countries. Also, we could actually test people like they are doing elsewhere. That would allow American patients to receive remdesivir. Right now we aren’t testing, so the first bunch of American cases won’t get proper treatment and some, I think many, will suffer worse outcomes and maybe even death because they won’t be identified at first because there’s “no evidence of spread yet” and regular Americans can’t be PUI yet. I get that it’s a medical ethics issue, but do people really get that? I don’t think they do.