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  • Rethinking city life?

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    ImprovisoI
    @Doctor-Phibes said in Rethinking city life?: If you can't see your neighbors' houses, how do you watch them when they're in the shower? That's what a telescope is for.
  • USA and CSA

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    CopperC
    Enumerate them.
  • Meanwhile in Maryland...

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  • Here to stay?

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  • Jobless claims -historical context

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    MikM
    And they wonder why states are having difficulty. They will muddle through with major delays, but there is no way anyone is going to stand up a system that could handle this
  • Hey Brenda! King Arthur question

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    JollyJ
    Meanwhile... https://popculture.com/trending/2020/04/17/us-running-out-frozen-pizza-amid-ongoing-coronavirus-pandemic/
  • We overreacted!

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    JollyJ
    @LuFins-Dad said in We overreacted!: @Jolly said in We overreacted!: @Doctor-Phibes said in We overreacted!: It seems to me that where people can work from home, they should. And a lot of people can do, with a few adjustments, at least partially. Healthcare is hands-on. Telemedicine is good for getting prescriptions refilled. Not so much for some other things. I was fine with reading the temperature, pulse rate, weight, and BP to my doctor on the TelePhysical. The prostate exam however... Just find a competent prostitute. Common procedure for a jon that's too slow.
  • UK moves to drop Huawei as 5G vendor

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    AxtremusA
    With or without COVID-19, it’s simply not a good idea to rely on mainland-Chinese equipment in the telecommunications infrastructure. It’s too hard to trust the mainland-Chinese equipment vendors not to simply do whatever the mainland-Chinese government tells them to.
  • Not everyone got a pay cut

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    MikM
    Bad optics perhaps, but he can fix it easily enough, as Jon suggested. This was set up before the pandemic.
  • The great debate

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    That’s awesome
  • More than you want to know about Covid vaccine prospects

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  • Interesting way to report this

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    brendaB
    These must be math-challenged reporters. Is there no one on the news team to help them?
  • Cuomo on lab reagents

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    JollyJ
    @Loki said in Cuomo on lab reagents: Jolly- what about antigen testing? Different ways to do that, such as sandwich technology (usually read on a box) or a cassette test like a pregnancy test. I know the Koreans have been using the latter and I suspect that's where we need to go (along with a serum test for antibodies). I don't know the production capabilities of the cassette test, but I do know there are some result problems.
  • Kicking and Screaming: WSJ’s Kim Strassel on the Media vs. Trump

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    jon-nycJ
    It’s a weird line, Mugabe’s government was maybe half the size of Dennark’s.
  • Give Me Tomorrow

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  • The Swedish Model

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    JollyJ
    Going extinct, sadly...
  • Covid is the new sexy

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  • Here's why I don't like hasty government assistance bills

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  • Welcome back, history...

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Yeah, fair point
  • Then & Now: Pollution images

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    MikM
    @Axtremus said in Then & Now: Pollution images: Maybe this narrative will make a round: "Extreme man-made pollution has triggered the Earth's immune system and the Earth responded with SARS-CoV-2 to protect itself." Imagine a Hollywood blockbuster with Jeff Goldblum delivering a line along that line. "Mother Nature finds a way". It has occurred to me that these viruses might well be seen as antibodies for the planet's immune system.