Dr. Michael Osterholm on masks...
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Dr. Michael Osterholm on masks...
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Clinton's last-second attempts to change the election results are irrelevant.
If you read the constitution and the writings of the founding fathers, it is clear from either source that electors are free to cast their vote as they see fit. The primary idea behind it was that the average voter does not have the intellectual ability, time or personal access to the presidential candidates required to make an informed decision. The secondary ideas were to prevent voter fraud and further provide a balance of power that prevents mob tyranny.
The current ruling has wide-reaching implications; 7/9 justices were of the opinion that states can punish electors simply because the constitution does no explicitly forbid it. We now have 7/9 justices who have built a precedent in supreme court opinion that allows states to force electors to vote a certain way. If that same opinion is applied to the state pacts that award all electors to the winner of the national popular vote, we have just effectively abolished the electoral college.
Our "federalist" judges are smart enough to know where this is going, so why would they comply with this ruling? I am speculating that it is the for the same reason all of our republican leaders allow themselves to be bullied into submission; They think if they can just appease their enemies enough, their enemies will stop attacking. Our limp-wristed conservative representatives and constitutionalist judges are out of touch with reality. They don't seem to realize their opponents don't give a damn about upholding the constitution.
They hope that if they appease the leftists by weakening the electoral college now, that maybe, just maybe, the leftists won't demand a full tear down of the electoral college if they win the 2020 elections.
This ruling is a grave assault on the foundations of our country.
This is the most terrifying post I have seen.
If they are allowed to gain control of the military, a Chinese-style, cultural revolution is guaranteed.
The Australian government saw fit to immediately take nine public housing buildings (~3k people) and put them into a "hard" lockdown with about 500 cops. From what I gather, they're telling them it'll be for five days so they can test every single resident. They're not letting them out for any reason except medical emergency. No groceries, exercise, nothing.
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At least they didn't weld the apartment doors shut.
Don't worry about me, man. I have a strong wife, in every respect, who is an excellent mother. I have two healthy children. I have family at home who are looking forward to us staying a while after my military and civil service have kept us away for nearly two decades. If anything, working in a Lowe's or Walmart for a few weeks will be liberating for me. I can mow lawns. I grew up in the country... a hard day's work is a good feeling.
I think Ron Paul is right, but he has no way forward. Maybe the Marines really screwed me up, but we are pathologically programmed to ALWAYS press forward. When I say "Give me a pragmatic solution" what I'm trying to do is keep moving and assume responsibility at my level. I think that's what fixes this, but I don't naively believe enough people will actually do it. Fuckin' worked for us, though -- acquire, adapt and overcome. I will be glad when people stop asking for things like term limits, though, and start earnestly talk about cutting down the federal government to about the square root of what it is now with maybe a bit more for the National Defense budget.
Mostly agreed, and to be entirely fair to Reagan... he had no idea Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama were coming 'round the bend. Globalization was still largely not Free Trade back then, but it's all behind us now. It informs the present, but none of it will help us get through the next ten years. Maybe not even the next year.
I think Dr. Peterson did a lot to synthesize this down to a clear, concise summary of what happened, but he didn't have more of a way forward than I have. The bubbles in our economy have existed for decades. They will eventually pop. If we don't get a handle on civil and international unrest, though, that might not a top priority going forward.
Don't mistake the Department of Defense for the US Military. As with politics and Washington, DC, the problems get worse the closer you get to the Hill (the "flagpole"). The inverse is true -- the farther out you get, and the closer towards actual combat and operations it veers sharply towards having zero time for anything that isn't killing enemies and winning wars. The problem is that those people don't make policy, and that the military frequently rotates leadership. These Great Advancements at work came in less than two years. Our mission changed from "Provide our war fighters the best and most secure things they need to fight and win any adversary" to what it is now after ONE change of command.
I may have been a little too harsh earlier. There's another small group of people still working civilian positions: the patriotic. Many are, themselves, veterans. But they are wearing very thin after years of sequestration, poor leadership, expanding corporate sector salaries and benefits, and a largely peacetime military relative to the earlier years of GWOT/OIF/OEF. So, slowly, the scales in the DoD are tipping further as more "diversity" champions are retained and more warriors and patriots leave. The military is trending in such a way, too. They shut down an entire Marine Air Base over a few positive COVID-19 cases.
But it's not a done deal, yet. I am done, though. And they likely can't fill my billet because they haven't filled many of the dozens I've watched them lose over the last few years.
It's our first step towards communism Pete!
Now the entire Melbourne metropolitan area (five million people) is under lockdown again for six weeks, mainly due to....wait for it....'the use of private security guards (to guard returning overseas travellers whilst in hotel quarantine), (and) the security guards having sex with quarantined travelers....
You CAN'T make this stuff up!
There is ‘no accountability’ in Victoria over COVID-19 outbreak | Sky News Australia
Hollis, may I politely request if you still insist on publicly accusing people of "racism" here, please henceforth type it as "WAAAYCISM", so I can imagine you saying it in a baby-voice.
In other news, "City officials in San Francisco are introducing the 'CAREN' Act to outlaw racially motivated 911 calls. It stands for "Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies."
Also best read in a faux baby-voice: https://twitter.com/UberFacts/status...60191689068544
I cannot believe that is real, but it apparently is.
You seem, upset and at the same time project your hate, shit, and discontent on to the posters in the rest of this thread. Which is pretty much the MO of most liberals. Accuse the OTHER of what occupies your own mind.
As you assert about your urban referent group, I'm fine too. I think I will survive having not seen Hamilton on or off Broadway. I've read the book featuring real people who did real things in a real historical context. Not some painfully inclusive bunch of pretenders cavorting about on a stage, just waiting for some dignitary who doesn't share their views to speak truth to from the footlights.
Fair enough, not all mask types have equal filtration efficiencies, that's certainly not an argument I was making. Looks like masks with multiple layers of differing fabrics is key and something that can be made at home with a needle and thread:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
Unfortunately, as you noted, they're not very clear on breath collection "Exhaled breath particles were captured and differentiated into two size fractions" seems to be the extent of their description.
I can't really argue that you should or should not be surprised but like a lot of people who've read and heard various arguments that masks don't do anything, I was surprised. Doesn't it stand to reason that blocking some virus at the source would reduce the probability of transmission? I think the second article I linked shares some useful anecdotal evidence that a mask can prevent transmission. There's also this story of two infected hair stylists that failed to infect any patrons:
Hairstylists with COVID-19 didn't infect any of their 140 clients. Face masks may be why. | Live Science
It's not a controlled experiment but it's not nothing either.