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Heck, read this early February article about the NYC Chinese New Year parade https://www.amny.com/editorial/fear-of-coronavirus-not-at-lu... . Every quote is from a politician te…

>That would suggest that America's medical system is ahead of Italy, which is suffering heavily due to running out of hospital space. The US has three times as many ICU beds per capita as Ital…

>The problem is that the population of California is 40 million. Even with basically unmitigated spread, your clusters will slow growth simply due to lack of new available uninflected contacts. &qu…

Also "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." —Herbert Stein

>No, he only proposed cutting the CDC budget. Luckily, saner minds prevailed. Presidents do not pass the budget; Congress does, under the Constitution. The annual President-proposed budget is just …

>No. There are instances of people testing negative and then testing positive again, but the strong consensus is that this probably results from faulty testing and/or changes in how viral mate…

>Get out of here with this. We had expert teams and processes in place to combat the possibility of this exact thing and his administration fired them without any replacement. Ah yes, yet another p…

One gets tired of having to respond over and over to people who read a Snopes headline (not even the entire article; as I said, it relies on a Twitter thread (!) to mark the claim "true", bu…

>On top of Trump firing the Pandemic Response Team in 2018. Ah yes, yet another person who looked at the Snopes piece's headline and nothing else. One would think reading it, and the Twitter t…

Ah yes, yet another person who looked at the Snopes piece's headline and nothing else. One would think reading it, and the Twitter thread it is based on, that to save money (or because the Trump …

>Did they say why? I'm not surprised the large store did, but the "old man in a tiny office" type shouldn't have - why did they refuse? If I recall correctly, they said that the…

>The rechargable battery for one of these is literally $10 on eBay, and I can't believe there wasn't anyone around you willing to fit it. I can believe larger chains refusing it, but come…

Amazfit Bip. $60 for GPS, heart rate monitor, step counter, notifications, 25 days of real battery life, more than 20,000 user-created watch faces, multiple third-party software that runs on the paire…

>At last, the zero-maintenance accurate watch. I imagined this to be the case when purchasing my $500 solar G-Shock, but it needed the battery replaced every 3-5 years, and the work had to be done …

>I get that they excluded the UK for diplomatic reasons No, Ireland is also exempt. In other words, the US is banning travel from the Schengen Zone.

>This board doesn't like politics but frankly it is the administration. They fired the CDC's pandemic response teams a couple years ago because they didn't want to fund it. There…

>To reemphasize: the president fired the chain of command for handling pandemics and did not replace them There's a reason the Snopes piece is mostly based off a Twitter thread. If you actuall…

>Interesting to see how basically trains can pass each other only at 2 stations: Bayshore and Lawrence A Caltrain conductor told me that the only time it makes sense to not take from San Francisco …

>I think the guy running the place matters more than the franchise name these days. More to the point, most Starbucks in the world, other than kiosk ones in larger establishments, are corporate-own…

>My citation says 66% of US Bankruptcies are tied to medical issues. Your citation says >A new study from academic researchers found that 66.5 percent of all bankruptcies were tied to medical is…

COVID19 was not a surprise; that is, it was known to exist in China some time before the first cases appeared in the US. It is not unreasonable for a government to assemble a team to respond to someth…

No. The CDC budget was never slashed. The president proposes budgets, but that's the starting point of negotiations within Congress. Congress has consistently increased the CDC budget. https:&#x…

>Many people with money but without insurance do go and get b*tch slapped later by their ~$10k-$200k medical bill. It’s a reason why medical debt is the LEADING cause of bankruptcy in the US. Only …

>It's hard to even get a job interview in Hollywood unless your phone number is in the 818 area code. I know 213 isn't the fashionable area code, but I thought 310 was.

CRTs are definitely superior for display lag (huge for competitive gamers), and also for retro gamers playing titles designed for CRTs' blurriness.

Yes, GeForce NOW forced me to get an ISP without a bandwidth cap, as I for the first time found that 1TB/month was insufficient. I was hitting 130GB/day.

Amiga was founded by Jay Miner and other ex-Atari people, and Atari was going to buy Amiga until Commodore swooped in. Jack Tramiel, Commodore's ex-CEO, bought Atari. The Atari ST is very much wh…

That just means that Neverware tested CloudReady on 11" but not 13". Similarly, the Mac Pro isn't officially supported because Neverware decided, quite rightly, that few people are goin…

>Take a bog standard sedan, put a 200-300 mile range battery in it, sell it for the battery cost more than the ICE version, scrap the ICE line before the government forces you to, job done. I'…

More to the point, Page was a source to the CIA , and had been for years, by reporting on his meetings with Russians. The FBI knew this, but specifically altered evidence to hide this from FISA when …