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The actual very interesting issue right now with ventilators is that there's companies in the US that make them and they say no one is ordering them. They cost around $25,000 each. Hospitals and states are sitting around waiting for the federal government to buy them and gift them to them, and whining that everything is the government's fault when that doesn't happen.
Wow, this is always a mistake and a huge one. exec() is dangerous, exec calling with sudo more so, and should never be used in conjunction with unprivileged user input like this. Granted a weak attempt was made to sanitize the user string, but so weak one might wonder if it is Underhanded Code at play here.
The big problem with this sort of issue is that it indicates that there almost certainly are massive security problems elsewhere in this code base since this one is low hanging fruit that never should have made it past even rudimentary code review by anyone with a bare minimum knowledge of security.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...
N95 is a high standard. N99 higher still. (Why not adopt that then?) There are also other mitigation efforts available not as good as N95 that are massively better than nothing and which are also attainable.
Insinuating as you have that only N95 is acceptable and nothing else whatsoever is acceptable means that millions will die in your universe since N95 is in the actual universe we live in unavailable at present. The perfect is the enemy of the good. But hey let's hold out for that perfection and then watch as the world incinerates.
$17,300 toilets are great, much better than $80 toilets.
Author should install a $17,300 toilet in his home using money he actually earned himself and THEN write about how he feels that was the right decision.
This motherfucker created a brand new account to post scientific misinformation and YOU Dan are supporting that. What the FUCK is wrong with you Dan? How insane and hateful and malevolent towards humanity can you be?
BAN SCIENCE DAN. BAN IT. HARM PEOPLE, DESTROY MANKIND. THIS IS YOUR WAY.
US is doing nothing whatsoever to ramp up mask or ventilator production. It's going to result in a lot of deaths.
Going into close contact with a person who has a known transmissible respiratory illness? N95 is minimum if you are a professional. And get your union to scream bloody murder if you are not allowed this essential safety equipment, and put complaints in writing so your heirs can later sue to oblivion.
Trying to massively reduce your risk when going out for supplies, or living with someone infected and have no other options? Surgical and homemade are vastly vastly vastly better than nothing.
Extremely antisocial, harmful, dangerous? Shaming those wearing masks.
Chloroquine seems to work best if you start it within the first few days of infection. So if you are say the US and have widespread BS regarding testing and prevent people from getting it, by the time they are tested and their results back it's too late. There's no chance the US will come to their senses and start using or even producing this drug in time to help stop mass deaths. Some people bought animal grade chloroquine and are self treating, but all that supply is gone now for purchase. Doctors won't prescribe it in the US either, for their own reasons.
In China and South Korea you can get tested if you have symptoms and you can start treatment if you have symptoms. So we are seeing things turn around in both places because of this and other actions.
It did. Since then they've done more studies, have started even more studies, and have deployed it en masse as a treatment. It's part of the official treatment recommendations in China, South Korea, Poland, and Italy. It's been described as a "cure" where it was used in Australia after Chinese patients demanded they be treated with it, and Australia is starting a nationwide trial. Pakistan had Bayer start up the closed production line and deliver 300,000 doses.
I believe it. I prefer to pay cash for cars, and it is extremely difficult to purchase new cars for cash at many dealerships. They don't like it and will do things like refuse to honor advertised prices.
Also alarming is all the Apple crap where the hard drive, that lasts at most 2 years, is impossible to replace without great risk to the device, special replacement gaskets, etc, and when you do it turns out the original had a proprietary temperature sensor that means your replacement dies in 6 months.
RAM welded to the motherboard on general purpose computers is another design horror that harms the environment and should be banned. All RAM should be upgradable on devices that cost more than $1000.
Also the era of cell phones without SD slots must end.
Another issue is I don't want batteries in my keyboard, mouse, or electric razor. All these things I use next to another thing with a power source. It's pointless to have them be rechargeable. Yet it's becoming harder and harder to find keyboards, mice, and razors that are wired. Cordless mice in particular are a blight on society because the extra weight of the batteries aggravates carpal-tunnel and is a health hazard.
Fun stuff. Gives me tons of confidence TrustableTech can be trusted and certifying device security globally. Trusted Technology Mark? To me this will mean "unsafe".
If we overload our hospitals then CFR will go towards the number of cases that require hospitalization. Which is around 20%. Italy is currently far over hospital capacity and has a CFR today of 8% and rising.
Media and government keep making this claim, yet where are the recovery numbers of people? It drags on for weeks and weeks with no end in sight, correct? And current case fatality rate in Italy is 8%, was 7% this morning, was 6% yesterday - because they do not have hospital resources for the number of serious cases they have.
Serious, critical, and dead outcomes are said to be over 20% of case. This being described as "very low, a very small number" by certain people. That is not a low number at all.
I had a few email conversations with Titor back in the day. Cryptic responses, kind of useless. Didn't convince me he was a time traveler.
Your wife's contact sounds more credible, such as it is.
If you understand which calls they are making and at what times they make them, then you can buy the corresponding put and make a lot of money. That he increased his investment by a factor of 9 in a week or so shows how much money we are talking about.
If the fed stops doing these daily calls though you can get holding the bag. Also in the event of a total collapse you can end up never being able to redeem your gains.
Elite traders know this game and are happily taking the billions that the fed is shoveling to them.
For the public, we'll see the elite doing well and able to afford the inflated cost of goods that results from pursuing this policy over an extended time period when it has repeatedly been shown to be a failing strategy since there are actual fundamental problems with the market right now, such as supply chain issues, likely loss of large numbers of staff, and upcoming mass unemployment and a global Depression.
A pardon is not possible because she has not been convicted of any crime. She is being held for contempt of court because she refuses to testify to a secret closed door panel. She says she will testify in public about whatever they wish but not to secret proceedings. She has also previously answered the questions they say they want to ask her in the secret proceeding.
Similarly in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, a politically connected one-man "energy company" called Whitefish, with no experience or skills, emerged out of nowhere and was given the contracts to rebuild the entire Puerto Rican grid.
Months later nothing had happened other than he hired a few people as unskilled as himself who were just dorking around down there, while people died.
So they fired that guy and hired another company called Cobra, with the same terrible terms, and the same ineffective response. Eventually it was found out that Cobra people had paid massive bribes to officials to ensure the deal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/puerto-rico-fema-arres...
Society treats people inhumanely and some as a result decide to fulfill that prophecy and act inhumanely.
When I saw the videos of Chinese people spitting out their windows and licking doorknobs I thought they were evil people. Now I realize they were driven insane by uncaring sterile hypocritical dead bureaucracy. I no longer judge them as I understand what led to their madness.
They caught and treated countless cases of Tuberculosis and even Cholera, which stopped epidemics in the community.
It's complete and totally psychotic madness, counterproductive, and will lead to the fall of society, to deny basic medical care particularly for epidemiological conditions to "illegal aliens". Societies that do so rightly fall.
I'm totally willing to accept and concede this woman is an "illegal alien", has no right to be in the Netherlands, is a criminal, etc. Maybe she is maybe not but let's get the bullshit out of the way and say she is for the sake of argument.
Should people like this be treated and tested for virulent plagues they reasonably might have or not? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing so? The advantages of treating plague victims seem clear, let's tighten this up and you explain to me how citizens of the Netherlands benefit by denying simple and basic treatment of plague illnesses to people because of their status as an alleged criminal or not.