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Nation-sized leverage? Piffle. Pass a law that Big Pharma can't price higher in the US than the lowest price negotiated elsewhere. Boom, problem solved.

Not at all. Hospitals shut down elective procedures, not because they were running out of room, but because they were ordered to do so. That freed capacity may have been necessary …

The response was primarily by Th cells, not the TC cells, so yes, this isn't immunity, but it would speed to body's adaptive immune system response. OTOH, the killer feature of Cov…

NYC and surroundings are very different than FL are very different than California. I agree NYC was a complete disaster, but it doesn't follow that Dallas would have met the same f…

There is still a piper to pay for the lockdowns, and that is the patients who will die due to untreated heart disease, missed cancer treatments and surgeries, mental health problem…

If the employer wants to manage the cellphone, then I don't use my personal phone for work. Period.

I'll be "that guy" and point out we know the climate simulations have similar issues.

Then public policy should heavily discount results based on academic code, if it shown to be poorly engineered. I'd go further and say you can't trust the papers based on the resul…

If you read the lockdownskeptics cite, "hard to debug" is not the problem. Non-determinism in the output is the issue, and if this is indeed the case, why would anyone trust the re…

Bingo for the Japan observation.

I think this is backwards. We have been using infection rates as a proxy for death rates, since deaths are a lagging indicator. It is certain we are missing a huge percentage of ca…

Australia (and New Zealand) have no clear strategy to defeat the virus. They have won the opening battle and are claiming the war is over. Unless Oz and NZ cut themselves off from …

The question was not "do you have evidence the truth wins more often than lies for the species as a whole"; there was no specific context implied as I read it. So, do you have evid…

Therefore we should let those with power choose what everyone can say and hear? Sorry, I'm not following.

"Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?" The existence of technology as well as science.

One saving grace of inequality, which I think doesn't get enough love, is that fractional trillionaires are spending lots of money right now to get humanity into space. The governm…

We don't even know the order of magnitude of the infection count, and you are making claims about how the lockdown is reducing them? That's not reason, that's faith.

There is some evidence schools, and young children, are not spreading the disease. In SG, which did extensive contact tracing early on, there were no clusters associated with schoo…

The Smithfield outbreak was in an essential industry factory (food production) which would not have been subject to a general lockdown.

Ah, letting scientists take the lead would explain why WA State shut down the Seattle Flu Study's efforts to pivot to investigate Covid-19. https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/se…

Yeah, this is just like the WHO announcing "no evidence" antibodies provide some immunity. It just means no one has done a scientific study of how to collapse the food supply on a …

Your number is highly suspect. About 16% of the US is 65+, or roughly 50M. Where do you get your 50M worldwide figure? When a new flu appears, Neil Ferguson claims his 3K lies of u…

Source?

Exactly. One virus which is has been proven effective against in vitro is SARS-CoV. Which is probably why it is being tried against SARS-CoV-2. The two are similar, but with clinic…

I have a friend who takes it for lupus, and has taken it for years. Clearly, he hasn't died, in part because it is a prescription drug and requires a doctor's script. He understand…