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very cool - looking forward to seeing the rest.

nope, obviously that's a continuum but it's been found to be much further towards the airborne end than was originally generally thought: [here]( https://www.thelancet.com/journals…

very serious, during the day and evening, between zone 1 and eastern zone 2, I see extremely high compliance. it appears to vary enormously by area, which is very surprising to me.…

> covid has kept him fairly serious. no it hasn't, it's kept him doing what he always does, wandering from tactical decision to tactical decision. the March lockdown only happened …

yes, obviously things mutate, but all your other information in this comment is out of date - the current information is the strain they're talking about is 70% more infectious.

No other western country has actually been willing to do what NZ or Australia did - strict contact tracing, strict lockdowns, and a near-complete ban on entering the country, with …

> Compliance with mask wearing on TFL is less than 50% where? my counter-anecdote is I've taken to counting everyone on the carriage I'm on (between zone 2 and 1), and it's never m…

Just the US value from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... vs #2 (Switzerland) is $US800 000 000 000 for all US residents in extra spending.

people getting their groceries locally instead of driving in to the centre of a city is a good outcome, though perhaps not for all of the inner city supermarkets. I am deeply uncon…

> This is true but complex. It depends on the type of service you receive. I feel this is never adequately priced into these discussions. everything about healthcare in the US is e…

saved you a search: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/15/statista-how-far-behind-us-i... . includes this depressing factoid, "American workers took an average of just over 17 days of va…

this may be the most depressing post in the whole thread - healthcare is fucked, insurance is too expensive for normal people, but hey, bankruptcy is pretty easy!

I disagree, a combination of cost of health care even for insured people, enormous worst case out of pocket costs and terrible wages means that people are conditioned to not go to …

this is a common pattern I see in discussions, the idea of "going to the hospital and not worrying about bankruptcy" is just unintelligible and so you end up with discussions like …

I don't understand your point? Nuclear testing occurred in Australia but not by Australia.

Australia doesn't have nukes because they don't want them, not because the US told them not to or promised to use them on it's behalf. it's so historically uninterested that it doe…

facebook and twitter have also been uncritically spreading false rumours from trump and only in the past couple of months have done anything to arrest the swirling hive of insanity…

if it was me, I'd skip straight to Qi-only just to avoid the amount of whinging they would have to endure (here would be among the worst) about "omg another cable change!!11" for t…

it's already a weird USA-specific question, even in Australia, world leader in rich-country-shitty-internet, it's not an expensive addon.

they got rid of stupid puzzles at least.

why do any police forces get military hardware at all? it seems mad to take an already over-armed group and then give them APCs and even more guns.

blimey that's some niche spam!

London was under lockdown until June, everyone is already acting like it will be locked down again in the next week or so, and has had strict mask and hygiene and social distancing…

the US hasn't even been able to match the measures[0] Sweden put in place, though? there's still thousands of people showing up with no masks to breath on each other at rallies etc…