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This data came from an observations that were also not controlled for age or other factors.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/03/hypertension-could-be-a-leading-factor-in-coronavirus-deaths-heres-what-to-know.html

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Let’s see…I have high blood pressure. My chance of dying from coronavirus is 6%. What percent chance of death do you think justifies closing of schools, banning large gatherings? Just curious.[/quote]

That’s not what the data say, though. All of the conditions mentioned are correlated to age … the study wasn’t controlled for age. If you have high blood pressure as a 35 year old, you likely have much lower chance of dying than 6%. If you’re 70 and have high blood pressure, you may have a 20% chance of dying. Statistics aren’t simple.

Should we protect against this thing? Absolutely. Should you panic and write your last will? Probably not.

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I don’t think the lateness was planned … Dewey Grisham had a rather worried, perplexed look … “when will he finally come out?”

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* Showed up 30 minutes late.
* Blew off the question whether he’d be tested despite exposure. Shook quite a few hands.
* A lot of CEOs and officials, not many (any?) academic research leaders.
* Disclaimed responsibility for the piss-poor response to the epidemic. This was known in mid-January. The US gov did fuck-all.
* Mr. Market didn’t buy it. DOW futures -376 after hours.
* He proposed spending $2.6 billion buying more oil for the Strategic Reserve … great to miss the point. Why not spend this money helping individuals and small businesses who lose their business instead of fluffing Big Oil?

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phaster: also, isopropyl alcohol is otherwise known as 2-propanol.

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Our response has been drastic because we didn’t respond soon enough in the first place. News of this broke around mid-January … we should have reduced flights from affected areas to drive up the price and discourage non-essential travel, required people coming from affected areas to self-quarantine for 14 days, used IR cameras to check for fever at customs checkpoints, ramped up production of testing kits. Sent the viral RNA sequence to every private and university lab…

We’ve been so busy fighting the last wars (illegal immigration and terrorism) that we’ve gutted our response to the next war (epidemic).

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What’s wrong with loving beautiful things like trees and trains more than ugly people who bully, jail, murder, maim, and do ugly things to other people? I’m not ashamed that I love things, public things like nice, clean, electric trains to ride on and trees in national parks.

Civilized countries use collective money to build things and structures that improve their own residents’ lives. Parks. Trains. Nuclear power plants. Healthcare systems. Universities.

The only things this nation (as a whole) can agree to pay for are things meant to hurt other people. Prisons. Bombs. Guns. Bombers. Missiles. It says a lot about this culture that people are oh so offended by a “fuck”, “shit”, or the image of a nipple (the original fountain of life) while spending half a trillion a year on institutionalized, organized violence.

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Lack of empathy begets lack of empathy.

I love many things. I love education. I love science. I love freedom. I love trains. I love nature.

Americans love their military babykillers and napalmers. Americans love mass incarceration. Americans love institutionalized violence towards their own people and towards the world as a whole. Americans love trampling nature for the sake of the ecahhhhnamy and ignoring science.

This is what Americans do to other humans…

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What’s crazy is wanting to keep overpriced healthcare in this country, not wanting to invest in infrastructure, wanting people to have to pay through the nose for college, and wanting to keep sending our military scum all over the world on homicide sprees. Also, incarcerating about 1% of our population. Not even China does this. Now, carry on.

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Can’t you use an uncertified repair shop? Who’d know?

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^^^

When I went to the supermarket, all of the “real food” was there, but the potato chip and salsa aisle was denuded. You’d think people were preparing for the Superbowl, not Armageddon and pestilence.

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^^^ Isn’t four years of abuse enough to get the point across?

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As long as the positively-sloped arm of the V stretches well beyond the 2020 general election, I’m all for it. Ride the Blue Wave. Universal healthcare for all … let’s hope this is Trump’s Waterloo.

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No US city has had a major outbreak yet.

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