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Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. American forces didn’t win a real victory until the Battle of Midway in June 1942 - six months later. American planes didn’t start bombing Europe until June 1942 either. And It wasn’t until the invasion of Guadalcanal (July 1942) that American ground forces were able to take offensive action against the Axis.

Big efforts take time to pull together, particularly when you start them from a completely unprepared state. And with this thing, as in December 1941, we were definitely unprepared.

What am I missing here?

Kodachrome was always preferred by serious photographers (at least until the Japanese film companies started muscling their way into the US in the mid-'80s), but Polaroid was the peoples' choice -- cheap, social and fun. People would crowd around a Polaroid exposure taken at a party, watching the image develop and commenting to each other on it. Nobody ever confused it for high quality film, but for the purposes it was put to, that didn't matter.

It’s the worst of both worlds: the extremely shaky legal situation of a real border lockdown, without any of the supposed benefits.

> [T]he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the fastest available molecular point-of-care test for the detection of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), delivering positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes... The ID NOW platform is small, lightweight (6.6 pounds) and portable (the size of a small toaster), and uses molecular technology.

The thing everybody else called a "hard disk," for instance, was long referred to by IBMers as either a "Winchester disk" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_d... for the etymology on that one) or a "fixed disk."

This is remarkable because it's hard to imagine most American companies, which are always looking to squeeze out a little more profit to juice the quarterly report, keeping someone on staff whose full-time job is to plan for what seem in good times like extremely remote contingencies. H-E-B, notably, is privately held.

And the funders won.

Wow. I mean, I was expecting “we don’t care that you’re being abused” to be the subtext here, but they just came out and said it.

Heck, tell the restaurateurs that when we’re done using their ovens we’ll rip them out and install shiny new ones. Problems that can be solved by throwing money at them are good problems to have right now.

Heck, pay the restaurant owners rent to use them — now you’ve solved two problems.

The report also found acceptable (if a bit lower) sterilization from applying steam from boiling water for just 10 minutes, which would improve turnaround rates even further.

How to kill tanks when you don't, now that's a more interesting question.

2) WordPress itself can be used as a headless CMS: https://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-headless-cms/

This is why it's essential that relief go to directly to people, and that we free those people up enough from expenses that aren't directly economically productive (things like rent, say) as we can. We want people to have money to spend, so producers will have a reason to go on making things to sell them.

Of course the above assumes that immunity really does develop after one exposure, and that the virus doesn't mutate into some sufficiently different form to reset the immunity counter to zero again. The evidence seems to indicate positive things on the immunity front, but it's still preliminary. And as for mutation, who can say?

My bet would be: marketing. Blockchain is hot, blockchain is sexy -- at least among people who aren't really technically inclined. (The technically inclined passed over the blockchain hype curve several years ago.)

There are tons of blockchain projects out there whose only real use for the blockchain is to be able to slap "now with blockchain!" on the sales materials.

Well, until it didn't.