Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Quote:You can't take such a ahistorical view of the world.
You can't just look at it as "what would happen today". There's two different questions here. What would happen if we pulled out everything everywhere today, and what if throughout history, we had not played International Police To The World.
The USA didn't need to invade the western end of the N American continent, or any number of Central, South-American, and Spanish-controled nations (Philippines, Puerto Rico, what was then Mexico) prior to 1917 because Russia (and later, the Soviet Union) didn't even exist back then.
Some say that w dropped The Bomb (twice), not to beat the Japanese but the blunt the Soviet advance into Japan. But the Marshall Plan ensured Germany's reconstruction and success under a USA-dominated system, as did the reconstruction of Japan. As far as our wars in Korea and Vietnam ... they seemed pretty pointless. Our Mideast wars were mostly about oil and the petrodollar. Our inteventions in modern-day South and Central America had nothing to do with the spread of "communism" but were meant to continue the sheer out-and-out exploitation of our southern hemisphere.
It seems to me that MOST of our "interventions" have to do with exploitative economics, and actually created more blowback than allies. And right now our problem with China is also primarliy economic. It's hard to replay history, but if the USA had supported various pro-democracy reformist movements instead of fighting them, we would be a "nation among nations" with plenty of friends ... not an empire... and probably better off.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#STAYTHEFUCKHOME
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Once again, you're taking what I say and arguing something completely different.
I think I'm just going to drop this conversation now because when you do that it's pointless to communicate further with you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
Hung out to dry
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Ted's TDS is probably actually a healthier alternative to Coompf Mania.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Human testing is beginning on a second coronavirus vaccine candidate after approval from the Food and Drug Administration, Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced Monday.
The company said the first phase of clinical testing is set to begin this week with a study of 40 healthy adult volunteers.
Each participant will receive two doses of the drug, INO-4800, four weeks apart. The initial immune responses and safety data from the study are expected by late summer, according to Inovio.
Preclinical data has shown “promising immune response results across multiple animal models,” the company said in the release.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/491498-human-testing-beginning-o
n-second-coronavirus-vaccine-candidate
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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To coordinate their response, some states with few modeling resources or home-state experts have used the IHME forecast that projects peak deaths and the resources needed. The White House relied on it in part to generate its estimate last week that the epidemic would kill 100,000 to 240,000 people nationwide.
Most epidemiological models look at different populations that interact in an outbreak — people susceptible to infection, those who are infectious and those already infected who go on to die or recover.
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the IHME model embraces an entirely different statistical approach, taking the trending curve of deaths from China, and “fitting” that curve to emerging death data from U.S. cities and counties to predict what might come next.
For that reason, many experts saw IHME as overly optimistic when it was launched March 26. Few U.S. states or cities are taking action as drastic as what was adopted in Wuhan, China — the birthplace of the coronavirus pandemic — or even Northern Italy in locking down residents.
Another big difference between IHME and other models is a fundamental assumption about how effective social distancing can be. The creator of IHME’s model, Christopher Murray, said many state models assume that social distancing will only slow or reduce transmission to some degree. The IHME model, drawing from the example of Wuhan, assumes policies such as social distancing and stay-at-home orders, can effectively reduce transmission to the point where an epidemic — at least in its first wave — is actually brought under control by authorities.
While the IHME original model relied only on Wuhan’s curve, the updated model now incorporates curves from seven regions from Italy and Spain where epidemics have also peaked.
The updated model suggested the total number of deaths would be lower, with an estimated 82,000 deaths from the first wave of infection, although the number could range from 49,000 to 136,000.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/06/americas-most-influential-cor
onavirus-model-just-revised-its-estimates-downward-not-every-model-agrees/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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LATimes
"White House press secretary, who never gave a news conference, is out"
And during coronavirus, too.
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British Columbia getting kudos from Federal Health Minister Dr. Tam for how we are dealing with pandemic.
When this hit for BC and such was all a matter of timing. Quebec kids had their Spring break the beginning of March, so they were slow to implement stay at home directives. Same thing for Ontario.
BC kids Spring break was around the middle of March, so we saw what was happening in Quebec and Ontario. We learned from their unfortunate mistakes as did Alberta.
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Gov. Cuomo to designate some parks as temporary burial sites as morgues, crematoriums and cemeteries can't keep up with all the dead.
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I would hate to be in New York City, either as a resident or as a healthcare worker. But I especially feel for the healthcare workers. One roughly 500-bed hospital had almost 200 deaths in a 24 hour period. I can't imagine it. And I can't imagine going through this week after week.
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