Good thing it wasn’t a Cheetah!

I prefer The Fatal Conceit.

@george-k said in One year ago today.: @jon-nyc said in One year ago today.: When did the US record its first death? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1st-coronavirus-death-u-s-officials-say-n1145931 Trust NBC to get it wrong. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/22/840836618/1st-known-u-s-covid-19-death-was-on-feb-6-a-post-mortem-test-reveals

I'm still trying to figure out how 97% is half-full.

@lufins-dad said in 'Empty' COVID vaccines at VA Kroger. How can this happen?: Here's a better account. Fewer than 10 AND the needles were empty. The technician thought they had been filled and they weren't. Which is still bizarre. Were the plungers pulled? If so, then they were full of air... I guess that's okay if not injected into a vein or artery? https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/krogers-in-virginia-accidently-gave-out-empty-covid-19-shots Shot is IM, so no problem. I didn't watch too close, but seems to me the Pfizer is mixed before pulling it into the syringe. Maybe a mix-up that way?

You go to Google when the person is unknown For example, there is no need to Google Norman Rockwell

What about Irish Americans? In the 1840s: The peasants fleeing Ireland had a shorter life expectancy (19 years) than slaves in the U.S. (36 years). Irish life expectancy is now 82.26. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/for-st-patricks-day-some-lessons-from-the-rise-of-americas-irish/

shocking

For those who didn't immediately recognize REWC.

LOL. You gotta hand it to him for ingenuity.

This is just amazing. No backup? C'mon, man! Wait, maybe they have it backed up on cassette tapes!

@jon-nyc said in It ain't just Cuomo: @loki That’s ridiculous. It’s not like manufacturing wasn’t continuing during the extra three weeks it took to get approval. Hard to imagine there would have been many more shots in arms by December. That’s rich coming from someone with your quant background. Just look at the U.K. and the impact of one month head start. I know it will never be asked but I also would bet all computer simulations would prove my point even with manufacturing where it was.

That's quite a life.

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@axtremus said in Quick, enter these words in your browser!: Those words work across multiple states because those words fairly accurately describe the realities of those states. You can call it “shaping,” but it’s just the shape of reality.

SOmewhat related to above post, but I am guessing that 200 or more years ago, many many people did not have any ID with them. There probably wasnt such a big thing. And many many people did not know how to read and write. I would think that today, the safety of voting in many ways is probably safer than many years ago. I know in some third world countries, where there are large amount of people who cannot read or do not have ID's, they put a symbol of the party next to the candidate so people know which party they are voting for. And they also dip their thumb in permanent blue or purple ink to mark them so that they can only vote once.