by creating a magnetic field and using a bipolar virus inside the device Lolwut? So they have a schizophrenic virus that can detect any virus?

@jon-nyc said in Peak infectious period at or before symptoms begin: Yikes. With an estimate that 44% of people were infected by people not yet showing symptoms. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5 Add to that asymptomatic people and people not tested do we think we might be closer to herd immunity than we understand?

And what the hell is with that weird formatting? Oh I see.

Beethoven? I really like his works. Didn’t think about him when thinking of a user name back in Piano World days.

More from AEI: https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/estimating-the-true-number-of-chinas-covid-19-cases/ Key Points China’s COVID-19 figures are not arithmetically sensible. The Communist Party has deliberately made estimation difficult, but, outside of Wuhan city and Hubei province, cases are low by a factor of 100 or more. In late January, Chinese media provided information about migrant outflow from Wuhan before quarantine. Using a lower number than theirs, then conservative figures for migrants’ infection rate and time in circulation before national lockdown, generates an estimate of 2.9 million cases. This is partly due to China’s huge population. That population can also hide COVID-19 among tens of millions of respiratory illnesses. Along with harshly enforced censorship, the population can hide tens of thousands of deaths.

The time it would take paper applications to process would skyrocket if they didn't have the electronic option. I really don't see how this hurts.

No one's riding... https://www.railpassengers.org/happening-now/news/blog/flexible-dining-on-amtraks-western-trains-temporary-but-necessary/?fbclid=IwAR2aWGSTiY9-csNSh3gN9PwGxvvqhvvrQVwuYIefovRlDtWUtGe3wD0LtWE on a typical day on the National Network, some 90,000 passengers are riding the trains. Today, that number is hovering around 4,000.

I am - Loki brought it to my attention. And I've worked with Tibco. They are ubiquitous on Wall Street for market data delivery.

Yeah, Larry, that was my guess too - tile on plywood or chipboard.

I'm pretty good friends on FB with a singer in NOLA. We chat about once a week. Since all of her gigs have dried up, she's now doing twice weekly performances from home, with a "virtual tip jar." I send a few bucks every time I watch. I worry that people like her are going be hit hard. Her husband runs a glass studio on Magazine St. He's shut down as well.

Lovely.

What has been the economic impact on countries that didn't even try to mitigate this? My SWAG is that it's significant.

I said it in the very first post. Subordinating its mission to servicing CCP sensitivities. Probably requires blood. At the very least actions like this could change their internal calculations.

Taking a SWAG, if it only needs to be fine enough such that the human naked eye cannot see the seam, perhaps the resolution of a laser printer or that of a Retina display is good enough, comes out to around 85 μm (300 dots per inch); call it +/- 43 μm.

Hard to judge this without knowing anything about the context. Maybe that guy knows something we don't know.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Theology discussion with a 4 year old.: @Larry said in Theology discussion with a 4 year old.: That was like a man blind from birth describing the color of the sky.... No, I'm just joking around. I could give genuine examples of things that have happened to make people that I know lose their faith, but in all seriousness I tend to get angry about them, so I kind of like to keep things light-hearted. It's common for people to blame God or to lose their faith when things don't go the way they think they should go. "Why did God take my loved one?" "Why did God let ______ happen?" But God didn't do it. God doesn't go around killing people, or causing bad things to happen, or just allowing things to happen. One can either blame God, or take the time to learn why bad things happen. The answer: one of the most beautiful things about the bible is that many books, written over thousands of years by lots of different people, each book dealing with completely different things - all fit together to create one common thread of truth - Why we are here, what happened to separate man from God, and what the plan is to reconcile man with God again. So when I hear people talking about how this or that terrible thing happened so they lost their faith, I don't blame God. I see it for what it is - people of weak faith using it as an excuse.