In which case I'm sure we can all agree to use the scientific method and call it the Wuhan Flu And of course let's blame the Chinese, just in case that has any meaning

@lufins-dad said in One more reason why there will probably be a third wave: @89th said in One more reason why there will probably be a third wave: @jolly said in One more reason why there will probably be a third wave: @89th said in One more reason why there will probably be a third wave: I think the third wave will be muted by the vaccinations as well as warmer outdoor weather allowing more distancing, but yes we are awfully close to have such silly behavior. People are tired, especially the young. At some point, people throw up their hands and say to hell with it... Fair. Especially as it’s pretty clear the virus isn’t really dangerous for young folks (obv the danger of transmitting to others is there) The big question remains whether the variants are more damaging to younger people. True enough, but what we are seeing here is that more young people are showing up at the ERs. Yet ICU stats remain low and hospitalizations and are not dramatically increasing like in waves 1 & 2.

Too bad cigarettes went away, they were such a great performance enhancer I guess there was a downside too

@lufins-dad said in Buy Ammo.: @brenda said in Buy Ammo.: @horace Come to Minnesooooooota. I promise we won't become South Dakoooooota. That made my day. Kind of tells you how my day is going, doesn't it? I'm here to help!

“Never Trump” is just another way of saying “I don’t think critically”. But, as always, cultures are comprised of low common denominators, and TDS is a low common denominator.

@brenda said in Stumped for His Birthday Gift?: @jolly said in Stumped for His Birthday Gift?: @lufins-dad said in Stumped for His Birthday Gift?: @jolly said in Stumped for His Birthday Gift?: According to articles in TNCR, this may be more appreciated... https://www.victoriassecret.com/us/vs/bras-catalog/for-love-lemons-berry-bra-1118173100?brand=vs&collectionId=22fa3d14-b65e-413e-978a-ae3a68195b6c&limit=180&productId=6a87e489-4288-40c3-833e-acff802c6eed&stackId=13ebc23f-adbc-476b-8c32-1d32d691f58e Can we get the hammock, too? Ma'am, if you are able to put both gifts to use at the same time while standing up, I doff my hat to you... Hmmmm ... Jolly called Lufins-dad a Ma'am. Going for the popcorn Damn people around here need to get some unique avatars. Harumph!

I wholly agree, along with my oft-stated Dumbass Doctrine.

Could only read the first couple of paragraphs due to non-subscription. But looks interesting. I dont know a whole lot about the subject, but it is interesting that with heat/cold, everything tries to find the middle.

Thinking about the math a little bit ... Suppose we deliver 200MM doses into people's arms by the 100th day of this new administration, that's roughly 100 million Americans fully vaccinated. Chances are there would be more because the single-dose vaccines are increasingly being used more. The "100th day" brings us to April 30. The "100 million Americans" figure is roughly the number of all Americans 55 and older. Take out the anti-vaxxers and you can conceivably push that line down to "50 and older." Once you get to that 50~55 line, it is quite conceivable that you can open eligibility to "all adults."

@taiwan_girl said in History of the Mac OS: What is determining if the new system is a .XX upgrade or a new whole number upgrade? Sometimes it’s because the engineers feel like the changes are significant or fundamental in some way. Sometimes it’s because the marketing folks think it’s a good idea. Sometimes it’s the lawyers trying to break some agreements tied to specific version numbers. Overall these things can be quite arbitrary when we looked at from the outside.

Ms. Harris' military abilities will be more than up to the challenge.

Yup, the Chinese economy has grown a super lot consistently over the past 20 years or so. But it has moved to the point that it needs the "external" or export economy to keep that growth. So, it needs to be shown that any bad moves made by mainland china will have significant economic impact to it.

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Update: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/world/americas/virus-brazil-bolsonaro.html More than a year into the pandemic, deaths in Brazil are at their peak and highly contagious variants of the coronavirus are sweeping the nation, enabled by political dysfunction, widespread complacency and conspiracy theories. The country, whose leader, President Jair Bolsonaro, has played down the threat of the virus, is now reporting more new cases and deaths per day than any other country in the world. “We have never seen a failure of the health system of this magnitude,” said Ana de Lemos, the executive director of Doctors Without Borders in Brazil. “And we don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.” On Wednesday, the country surpassed 300,000 Covid-19 deaths, with roughly 125 Brazilians succumbing to the disease every hour. Health officials in public and private hospitals were scrambling to expand critical care units, stock up on dwindling supplies of oxygen and procure scarce intubation sedatives that are being sold at an exponential markup. Intensive care units in Brasília, the capital, and 16 of Brazil’s 26 states report dire shortages of available beds, with capacity below 10 percent, and many are experiencing rising contagion (when 90 percent of such beds are full the situation is considered dire.) In Rio Grande do Sul, the state that includes Porto Alegre, the waiting list for intensive care unit beds doubled over the past two weeks, to 240 critically ill patients.

As it should be.