Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are the largest living private philanthropists. I wonder if Pope Francis would therefore absolve their wealth from his inequality pleas.
@George-K said in The word I've grown to hate in the last month.:
Remember when "at this point in time" was a thing?
My dad used to get so mad about that one. He'd say 'WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH 'NOW'?'
With a virus that can spread asymtomatically? How were they to do that? Do you know they did not take the steps they could? Simply not possible to quarantine staff.
I must say that I like the 214VC significantly more than the non-VC version. It is less Bösendorfer-y, in some ways, but it just sounds and feels better.
@Rich you can watch his program again if you click on the link above. I watched it again from the beginning. I still marvel at Hamelin's musicianship and astounding technique.
There was a town in Italy where almost 70% of blood donors tested positive for antibodies.
But then 1.7% of the population had died of the virus, so you can imagine it was pretty close to sweeping.
I don't think we really opened them up to commerce, I think they did that for themselves. It's possible that is what allowed the CCP to survive. It's also been said that China is now a lot less open economically than it was in the 80's and 90's.
