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Technology and innovation is generally a product of private investment, and with the economy of so many nations damaged, the first priority will be to fight to restore basic manufacturing and production of needed goods, medicines, and food. Many small high tech companies that were the beneficiaries of investors with a metric shit load of cash are going to be out of business, or readjusting just to survive.
It will be a long time before this type of investment will come back, and when it eventually does, the time table will be off the schedule.
[quote] It makes me wonder if I have it, or if my family has it, or my neighbors have it, or if the people I see at the stores have it, but none of us knows it. [/quote]
That is certainly possible. The infectivity of this virus is ridiculous which makes me think it's far more prevalent than anyone knows or admits to.
If the antibodies remain in humans and if they ever test a large group, we'll get an idea how many have been infected.
But that's why this virus is such a ball buster: it might not be all that more lethal than seasonal flues, it's just that it spreads like wildfire.
[quote] They keep treating it like the deadliest plague ever to hit the world, and yet people are surviving at a higher rate than expected. The panic has been worse than the disease! [/quote]
While the virus isn't as deadly as many feared, it's infection rate (R0 number) is ridiculous. That's why hospitals in Italy were totally overrun with sick and dead.
If everyone in the U.S caught it, there would be 8 million dead from the virus. And while everyone wouldn't be exposed to it, it's R0 number means that every person who gets it would infect on average 4 or more people. That's how things get out of control.
The typical run of the mill virus has an R0 number far lower, and it drops below 1 during the warm weather which is why it dies out. Far less people are infected.
It's not the mortality percentage of the covid-19 that's noteworthy, it's its infection rare which is what makes this such a killer.
There's a distinction that must be made.
Covid-19 could have come directly from eating animals from dirty markets, it could have been lab made in Wuhan, or it could have been a bat sourced virus being studied in Wuhan and bungled into the public.
There doesn't seem to be any evidence to support the theory that the virus was lab created, but there is more than a little circumstantial evidence that suggests that the level 4 Wuhan lab had a Homer Simpson moment and someone working there unintentionally was infected and then spread it in Wuhan where it raged out of control.
While this can happen in the most careful and experienced labs in the world, the Chinese should NOT be playing with stuff like this until they understand better what's required to prevent these accidents.
China has caused a lot of grief, misery, and death along with economic damage that might have set back technology advancements for 20 years.
Oh gosh, sorry. I thought this was going to be a porn thread...
A month ago I estimated the death rate was 0.4 percent when it was reported to be about 2.5%, and got eviscerated for it.
This was my logic: in a country with 330,000,000 people in it, there should have been little chance that any celebrity or other well known person got it. Within a few weeks, we knew about celebrities, athletes, politicians, etc. Right then I guessed the numbers of infected were actually 50 to 100X higher than was believed.
The only stat we could be reasonably be sure about was the deaths, but not the infection rate. But dividing known covid deaths by my guesstimate of the infection rate, I came out with a very small percentage.
It seems now that even more people have been infected and recovered (or never actually sick) than was previously believed.
Too bad Gandolfini died. I would have loved to have seen a sequel. Since no one could replace him, any chance of a sequel film are gone forever.
Hopefully the prequel will be good.
Simple: he caught the CCD (Chevy Chase Disease).
She was marketed brilliantly. Her sound was sort of a throwback to early 60s soul which was unusual for the 2000s, but not particularly noteworthy. Like Madonna before her, she was more hype than substance.
Madonna managed to avoid that fatal overdose during her "prime" though.
You mean like me? My wife watches and I sit through it as penance for watching The Godfather 10000 times..
But watching the judges guessing who is in the costume makes me think they all aren't given little "packets" of clues to study. Nothing that outright gives up the contestant directly, but enough to tie in with the clues they are given during the show.
He selected an athletic demure brunette, and he was halfway out from the neck injection when her face appeared. Maybe it was his buried memory that caused that.
[quote]Why Would The Rekall Fantasy Include a Bad Wife[/quote]
It would just reinforce the whole "secret agent" aspect of the fantasy.
Now, what doesn't make sense is why Rekall would include a previous memory implant gone wrong and the whole idea of Rekall being the screw up, or having implanted a memory of a golf ball being pulled out of his nose, or the memory of having to kill the woman he "loved".
From a face standpoint, I think Katherine Heigl has (or had anyway) a classical timeless beauty.
LOL, one of the first cultural appropriations...
Agree.
But I remember how he stole the bar scene in the movie 10. Just subtle, not over the top at all, but I remember being impressed the first time I saw 10 in the theater when he was just an unknown bit player.
They drew first blood. They drew first blood....
Heheh.. they get more colorful in Bonanza, particularly the musings of Hoss.
Wasn't he a Flintstone's character?
Galveston
Gentle On My Mind
Southern Nights
Underrated guitarist.
Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, .. all crap.