It’s a serious issue. I’ve experienced what I have to assume what was a relatively mild but very real case.

I do think a two-tier healthcare system is the most practical. University -based hospitals and clinics training physicians and healthcare personnel, treating the indigent/Medicaid. Then hospitals and clinics for insurance, Medicare and fee-for-service patients.

@Renauda said in Age-stratified infection fatality rate of COVID: @taiwan_girl Curious though the mortality rate of Covid if we had the same medical practices and infrastructure as 14th century Europe. Interesting thought. I dont know the answer. I am not sure that COVID is as deadly untreated at plague is untreated. But it would have been pretty bad I think. The scale of death during 1347-1349 in UK was crazy high.

I used an induction stove in Stockholm last week. The whole stovetop was an induction field, you could place the pan anywhere on it and it would detect where it was and only induce a field there. The stovetop was hot for a while after, since there’s a metal pan on it holding boiling water.

I’ve always figured carbon sequestration or geoengineering would rescue us from climate change eventually

Let's hops so...

Good.

I use Windows Defender, but I wonder if it is just as bad.

it’s clouded by the fact that, as a Black queer woman, Chapman, 59, would have almost zero chance of that achievement herself in country music. Is that right "Black queer woman"? Shouldn't it be "queer Black woman"? OK, so she has zero chance of being a male country star. That is a shame. However, Mr. Combs has zero chance of being a "queer Black woman". Someday we will overcome these limits and have equity. Maybe Mr. Biden can deliver this in his second term.

Why would you want cold whisky?

@Doctor-Phibes said in Heroin - OK, Cigarettes - Lock 'em up: Treating drug addicts as criminals has historically worked so well. I was talking about the bad drug addicts, not the good drug addicts. Of course we all embrace drug addicts who are productive members of society.

@Jolly said in Be careful with those thumbs up - they could be legal: See Horace, cowboy boots can look good with shorts. less is more, for this young lady.

@George-K said in Is your phone on vibrate?: @Rich said in Is your phone on vibrate?: having it on vibrate helps me find it If you have an iPhone and Apple Watch, you can "ping" the phone from the watch. D4 is constantly misplacing her phone and it's a godsend. My wife does that too. I’ve told her she has lost her fine motor skill of remembering where she left her phone since she just relies on that feature.

Yeah I’m a big dewpoint guy. Give me anything sub 60 please.

What is wrong with the guy giving a sympathetic hearing to Tate? No, I didn’t watch it, and have zero inclination to do so. But WTF? I know, I know, he’s just asking questions.