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There is no debate. Healthcare workers are invariably wearing masks around all patients, regardless of known COVID19 status.

It is simply irresponsible to claim that wearing masks offers only marginal benefit. This is a respiratory virus, it is transmitted by droplets.

The downvoting of this plain truth ought to scare anyone who values science over politics.

The WHO also is claiming that Taiwan is just a part of China and the WHO will not accept a free Taiwan. Seems overly political and specific for an "independent" health organization.

They said wearing masks does not help decrease infectious spread. They actually claimed that wearing masks can increase infectious spread because of improperly wearing it.

If oil price goes down, demand for renewables goes down.

Lower demand for renewables means... Higher prices? Less output of actual renewable products like solar panels? Less demand for new wind turbines?

It's amazing what can be done from an advertising standpoint to both get people interested in smoking, but also how to dissuade people from smoking.

As a gay man, this anti-smoking ad campaign doesn't really appeal or apply to me, but I could see why it would be effective for heterosexuals:

https://youtu.be/82x9pzHkHK4?t=16

Edit: nevermind, this is satire.

The population and economy and role in world travel of New Zealand is hardly comparable to the United States.

A high percentage of COVID-19 infected people are asymptomatic.

How would temperature and subjective screening prevent these asymptomatic patients from infecting many others?

No, I mean every government is incapable of saving everyone or preventing any infections. Nearly all countries in the world have had infections in their borders. The state of New York has an incredibly high infection rate because of its role in being a hub of international travel. New York still has not closed its borders, and their role in spreading disease within its borders can not be understated.

There is a stark difference in population, density, and economic activity between the United States and every other country in the world. The United States is the global hub of business, it's easy to see why they would be different compared to Norway.

The virus was circulating in the United States undetected, by January. As one of the largest, most heavily traveled countries in the world, there was little hope that they would be able to shut their borders early enough to stave off any infections.

Every government got this wrong, local, state, and federal. Democrat and Republican. The most important lesson is that you can't trust the government, they're not capable of saving you. You need to be able to save yourself.

So is the sea level being measured or estimated?

Ventilators are incredibly simple and can suffer considerable constant abuse without a hiccup.

These are medical grade devices.

It's like artificially inflated GDP numbers from producing bad steel that nobody will buy. It does something, but in the end it's really nothing, and actually quite wasteful.

This is incorrect. There is no supply/demand relationship for pricing services. Doubling the number of trained physicians will not decrease healthcare costs, it will simply drive down physician annual income.

The main driver of inflated healthcare costs is administrative waste: hospital management, insurance management, government management.

Physician practices get absorbed by large national corporations and patient care gets reduced to metrics that administrators can tweak to extract more revenue and profit. The benefits get paid to administrators as bonuses, while physicians see their salaries stagnate.

The corporitization of physician practices is destroying the profession.

Meanwhile, other purists decry cul-de-sacs as a suburban abomination that inhibit walkability.

It doesn't matter, the level of detail is so good that no camouflage can hide your secrets.

This tweet says: we can see anything we want to see. We know when you're lying, don't even try.

Wouldn't that be priced into futures contracts? Even with all the problems with Iran, the price of oil is really low in a historical context.

Even if the companies laterally move overseas manufacturing to other Asian countries, the end result is still China losing economic control over the United States.

Can't those other countries start behaving like China? Sure, but doubtful it would go anywhere.

Russia is an irrelevant economic factor in the 21st century. Their export is fossil fuels, and that's about it.

Hundreds of millions of people have been brought out of poverty, outside the United States.

100 years after Communism burst on the scene, we currently look at that development with disgust.

Right now most people have access to abundant food, cellphone in every pocket, access to a wealth of information, access to transportation, incredible medical advances.

I can't imagine that the progress we've made would be scorned. Like other market driven forces, bad players will not be rewarded as information about them increases.

However, if information is not increased because of something like a company buying a newspaper so investigative threats can be used against politicians to avoid information gathering, then we have problems. This is more crony capitalism than just capitalism.

I plan on keeping my large house long after the kids leave. I need my space.

They also mix proxies but superimpose temperature records from the last 150 years. A better curve would be using one set of proxy data to maintain consistency.

They didn't have records before 1880 according to the article. So, it could have been warmer, but there is no record of it.

It hasn't been this hot since 1880, per that article.

"This could increase global warming by as much as 0.27 °C by 2100 and as much as 0.42 °C by 2300"

Maybe he was asking if there was any visual perception that had to be done or is the data simply available without having to use visual analysis.