(Un)fortunately? that will only be until October, when the entirety of the known universe will have been converted into virus particles. Remember?So you're stuck having said all this stupid bullshit for as long as there are electrons.
(Un)fortunately? that will only be until October, when the entirety of the known universe will have been converted into virus particles. Remember?So you're stuck having said all this stupid bullshit for as long as there are electrons.
A few weeks ago there was a brilliant interview with the Swedish Professor Johan Giesecke (European CDC, advisor to WHO, big-time epidemiologist, etc.), in which he criticized the Imperial College study.
Here's a a response to that interview from Professor Neil Ferguson, who was the lead author of the Imperial Study.
Worth watching both.
This is something I am interested in discussing.
Is suppression a viable strategy even if the rest of the world doesn't play along? It seems that suppression only works if your neighbours play along. If they don't, you have to maintain non porous borders with them or continue lockdown.
And then there is the looming vulnerability of a virgin population that is constantly threatening. Once society is ramped up to a certain level, you basically need to be a Laplacian Demon to achieve successful contact tracing to prevent embers becoming wildfires.
Isn't the stronger argument to allow deaths to occur at a manageable rate, and to target suppression measures only for the vulnerable?
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He's been comfortable so far. But he keeps promising to leave.
Here's a slightly different virw from the non-economic side of things:
My grandpa died last Sunday. Not of Covid, just of being 92 years old. Thankfully he was living in a smaller Wisconsin community that has minimal cases. The funeral director bent the rules and allowed children, grandchildren, and spouses to have a viewing and small funeral over the weekend.
I'm very thankful he passed away later into this pandemic. I'm fine with grandparents dying, but it was nice to be able to see the body and get together with the family. I doubt we could have done that if he died a few weeks earlier.
That being said, my grandmother was not able to be with him when he passed. They let her in the day before when they knew it was almost time, but no other family was able to see him since they put him into hospice two weeks ago. I didn't ask grandma, but I have a feeling she would have risked catching the corona virus for the chance to be with her husband when he died.
Frustrating stuff, but it makes me feel for those people in places with even harsher lockdown regulations who weren't even able to do what my family did.
Rip: gas in some places is under a dollar. If I remember correctly, you were in the oil industry at one point, correct? Do you think they've started capping the higher cost wells yet? Any idea on that timeline? I figured that last week may have been THE last week before severe closures of industry sectors was necessary. Crude oil production was what I picked for the strongest indicator of the point of no return.
Maybe I'm missing something, though. Figured I'd ask the board.
Thank you, Dr. Fauci. This is the kind of shit that makes me very mad. I won't be past it soon.
I saw it for $1.28 today. Most of the stripper wells are shut in right now. The problem is that the big expensive frack-job wells do not shut in without damage to the formation they are producing. I don't know that much about it, and maybe somebody reading the board can confirm this, but I think this is the reason the futures price went negative last week -- it's so expensive to shut down an unconventional black shale well that it's worth the immediate loss of margin on the product to preserve the hole.