> After randomization, subjects take hydroxychloroquine 400mg per day for 5 days, also take conventional treatments. Huh. I'm on 200mg/day for rheumatoid arthritis. I wonder if I ought to double dose for a while.
Sorry for the late reply: I don't see how it would prevent infection. It could be useful post-infection, to prevent complications and inflammation. Compared that with the standard of care right now which is simply observing the patient during their recovering. There are a fair amount of studies who took the initial in vitro results (i.e. cell culture) suggesting non-specific antiviral activity (at that level coca-col…
Thank you.
I'll ask my rheumatologist about increasing the dose. In case I get infected, have trouble breathing, and can't get hospital care.
Can you explain the strikes, complaints about work pressure (having to piss in bottles, ridiculous uncontextual performance requirements), high workplace injury rate compared to competitors, etc given this abundant choice.
It's a large company with thousands of employees, and the company has stepped on a lot of toes by out-competing many, many brick and mortar retailers, so there is "consumer demand" for reports of their inherent wickedness and every malcontent gets a microphone. I repeat the same question -- if they don't like it there so much, why not go work for Walmart? Or Target, Home Depot, BJ's, etc.? If the way they're attracti…
When I got my raise recently, I still got the same amount of breaks as I did before, and sometimes I can take tiny breaks while working on the floor. Yet, I don't understand what you mean by inflexible hours. I understand it's not like Uber, but it's got more schedules than most businesses. My site has 5 different FT schedules, and a PT schedule: 2 on night shift, and 3 on day shift. I initially chose this job because the hours were perfect for my schedule. Plus I'm able to have more time off during the week to spend time with family since I only work 4 days. It also makes it easier to get that OT and still have days off. I do believe this is unskilled labor, and I believe we should be paid accordingly to it. But that doesn't mean we can't learn skills while we're here and get promotions because of it. Well thanks for listening, and I hope you stay well.
With any job that requires urinating into bottles to keep low tier managers' KPIs good, I somewhat doubt the attribute "much needed".
Like all jobs, these jobs are voluntary. Workers can quit any day they want. Since they keep showing up, they clearly think these jobs are their best option at the moment. Here's my point: I strongly believe that you or I have neither the information or the right to judge that choice or take it away from them. The piss in a bottle stories are just that. Amazon and Bezos have much attention and many enemies. Stories a…
100% correct! We are providing an essential service and precautions are being taken to protect our health and the health of the people we love. The new time off options allow anyone who feels as if their health is at risk can stay home with no fear of losing their job, while those of us that are able to work still have that opportunity. Time off policies have been changed, additional paid time of is being given if you are ill, additional sanitation staff is on hand, doors are being propped open so as to avoid door handles, things are being changed minute to minute to ensure the health and well-being of all Amazon employees while we are trying to provide a vital service to those people who are home bound. A relief fund has bee set up and a pay increase has been initiated. You are so right..the stories are just that...STORIES! I keep thinking what else can Amazon do for me before at least one person with a negative attitude says...hey wait a minute...maybe they are not so bad after all. Looks like I'll grow even older waiting for that to happen!!
Put a land value tax in place, and then the incentive to hold property for speculation goes away, in favour of selling it to people who can use it productively.
> Put a land value tax in place We already have that. I pay huge property taxes every year and so does everyone else who owns land.
Not the same thing. Property taxes based on the improved value of the land create a perverse incentive to avoid making improvements, and California prop 8 and similar laws encourage people to hold property as long as possible rather than sell to people who could make better use of it.
I'd actually go the other route: tax investment gains like any other income, at the time when they happen, and then the incentive to do buybacks or cash hoarding goes away.
Then you have two new problems, because a lot of investments (e.g. real estate, small businesses) aren't liquid, and you don't necessarily know the value at any given time. If you own a restaurant and a sports stadium opens next door which causes the value of the land to double overnight, you'd suddenly owe $50,000 in capital gains tax, but what if you don't have $50,000 in cash? You'd have to sell your restaurant to…
Right, but none of those problems exist for listed stocks, which trade liquidly and can be readily converted back and forth to cash - indeed that's the whole reason a buyback works. I believe tax law already has a class of things that are considered cash-like - foreign currencies, bullion, that sort of thing - perhaps a good first step would be treating liquid stocks the same way.
Or face a total financial system meltdown if the fix is poorly implemented. I think the simplest solution is for the fed/government to simply give everybody cash, since the root of the problem is that a lot of people have temporarily lost their incomes due to their jobs being essentially banned in response to the pandemic (eg a lot of people in retail outside of supermarkets/food). Anything that involves nonpayment i…
That is actually a great argument. Directly injecting liquidity to citizens. At roughly 200M adults in the US, $2000 per adults would be $400B. Except $2000 doesn't really last long.....
Cut the military budget, you can save a lot of money that way.
You mean like American Airlines that had a profit of $7.6 billion in 2015, and didn't save dollar one for a rainy day? Instead, it bought back $15 billion worth of stock over six years while raising fees and shrinking seats? “I don’t think we’re ever going to lose money again,” -Doug Parker, American Airlines CEO, 2017. Let 'em fail.
Letting them all fail would do more harm to others than warranted. But letting the weakest one fail as a warning to the others that the bailouts are over and perhaps they should learn to save against rainy days isn't the worst idea.
The government buys the airlines after they declare bankruptcy. Sell them to the highest bidder when the market recovers.
Hilarious but probably time to leave this site...I got down voted into oblivion for pointing out the US economy would probably collapse due to repo operations 44 days ago... Too bad, I guess anyone thinking outside the box and pointing out that our herd is going off a cliff is problematic...
The economy may be very well on its way to collapse, but I don't think it's because of the repo operations.
Not because of repo ops, but repo ops are the indicators of underlying liquidity issues that signal collapse.