Why are you so intent on informing us of how authoritarian the government in China is? Do you think the average happy (albeit somewhat anxious these days) mutant here doesn’t already know that?
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As advice though it doesn’t make sense. You can hope that people self-isolate, but unless you either lock them in or give them a way to do that without starving they’re still going to go out, and if they need to take a bus to get to their doctor or the grocer or even to get to work so they can pay their rent that’s what they’re going to do. And doing that isn’t selfishness, it is desperation.
This is especially true for older people, who don’t have experience of, say, ordering groceries using an app from a cell phone.
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Me stating that I don’t understand why people are hording toilet paper is not me saying I don’t understand toilet paper. I not only understand it’s uses, I have on occasion, used it myself. My confusion with the mass hysteria of TP hording stems from the fact that if this virus does trap everyone at home like a zombie movie then in the list of items we should have ammased, TP is pretty close to the bottom with extra doggy bones. I would, if this was actually the dire scenario the TP hoarders are projecting, would buy up canned goods, dry goods, medicine, and water storage containers. If we are stuck at home in a TPless dystopia, we can certainly use napkins, paper towels, and if all softish paper runs out, I would simply run the hose into the bathroom if not for the fact that there is already a bidet there. I get the luxury and convenience of plentifull toilet paper, just not the frantic hording of item #124 on the survive supply list while ignoring the 123 other items.
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It is both despicable and related to ongoing coronavirus happenings. Why do you ask?
The necessary unpleasantness.
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I don’t understand why people who have a bidet don’t get the importance of toilet paper for those who don’t have one.
All right- I do.
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A friend did the maths and came up with 250,000 to 3,5000,000 deaths. The Brexit supporting areas are going to be the hardest hit by this. They are repaying the ex-labour voters who switched at the last election with mass extermination.
The Tories are still lower than vermin, but they have found new depths with de Pfeffel and Cummings.
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Could any of our German speakers translate this, please?
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I think it translates to “Donald Trump is a big fat doody head - and can go fuck himself with a wood rasp.”
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What a great image for the situation!
NO. That is as many as 20% of those affected. This is not only people in at-risk groups. If there are not sufficient hospital beds, the mortality can be 5%.
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I can understand how and why medical staff are at greater risk of infection.
But why does it seem that they are more likely to die?
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Mine is not good but I want to practice:
“The pharmaceutical company in Tübingen has no aim to make a deal with the usa. An exclusive coronavirus vaccine for a specific country is out of the question. They will continue to research a vaccine for the whole world, not the US.” Pretty much what the blurb suggest it seems? Apologies for jumping in.
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Have you read the news lately? Maybe things are fine where you are, but over here people are buying all of that, too, like crazy. Over here supermarkets and grocery stores are pretty much out of canned, dry and frozen goods, and fresh foods like meat, vegetables and fruit get bought out in a matter of hours. Also cleaning supplies, disinfectants, etc.
If you consider TP a luxury, that’s awesome for you, but for most of the population, it’s an important hygiene item. Also: not everyone has a bidet.
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CureVacAG does not aim at a deal with the USA.
An exclusive contract/agreement for a vaccine against the coronavirus with just one country is out of the question.
They want to develop a vaccine for the whole world and not for individual states/countries.
Also, what @KathyPartdeux said.
ETA: @TornPaperNapkin: spot on.
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These models are nice to give the layman an idea how modeling works, and what flattening the curve means, but NOT what we need to do to actually flatten the curve. I’m afraid most people confuse the map with the territory here: They’ll believe this is exactly what happens, and therefore the proposed solution is the only one possible, and it will work. All that is not the case.
As with all interventions in complex systems, simple simulations will only get you so far, and only when these plans hit the real world, it becomes interesting.
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And next Wednesday we will have several acts against the president in several capitals. These demonstrations are sponsored by left-wing parties and unions.
So far, no one has come publicly to cancel these demonstrations.
It seems that no one is taking seriously what happened in Asia, Europe and the United States. Everyone seems to think that God is really Brazilian, as the saying goes, and nothing will happen here.
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Stop. That’s not how any of this works. Testing is necessary to make sure people who have the virus self-isolate. While the disease skews toward the elderly in terms of severity, there are people all over the world in their 20s and 30s who have needed ICU support and mechanical ventilation in order to survive.
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