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How can you suggest to be in cash when they are literally printing trillions with no sign it will slow down?

I know that a lot of it is supposedly not going to make it into the real economy. But if there is one thing for sure, it's that the government is going to behave recklessly and fuck it up.

I think older people are more worried about those they are taking care of than themselves. At least it's true in my case.

> Amphetamine salts are apparently used to treat ADHD. Some people use them illegally to concentrate for mid terms and finals at college or similar. I'm not personally aware of any valid reason to think they are appropriate for covid19.

There is a study that shows in vitro, it helps fight the flu: https://covid19data.com/2020/03/06/meth-may-fight-flu-virus-...

There are also many reports from meth users that they almost never get sick.

Any lingering aftereffects?

So only focus on pain misery and death all the time until it stops?

Unless we are seeking out what works rather than what is broken all the time, we're going to miss a lot ways to make life better.

> S. Korea is the only country that literally "flattened the curve." See unbelievably flat graph @6:50 in link above.

Taiwan has also done so. It has a similar story, burned by SARS, also.

https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En

What does food that regulated by the FDA have to do with this?

Write a letter

> It seems like you'd need to manually administer this strain to millions of people.

Yes, but this doesn't seem too hard. Just have some infected people spit in a cup, and mix it into large vats of raspberry jam and people can then just spread it on their toast on one morning.

> And now our consumption will shrink. What's this do to king dollar?

Every time we consume we're exporting those little green pieces of paper, you know?

Shrinking consumption actually props up the dollar, because we're giving out less, and the rest of the world, with dollar denominated debt and liabilities, has bills to pay.

What about an underwater setup where the VR headset is merged into a scuba mask?

Eventually we could move on to having tubes implanted for feeding and waste. You could stay in there indefinitely, forget you ever even existed outside the simulation...

Over one hundred replies to this? How to get attention on hacker news, just gripe and whine about your interaction with a big corporation, I guess.

Not exactly the same, but checkout Tabletop Simulator. It's a 3d play environment which can play very many board games, card games etc. The steam workshop must have tens of thousands of popular board games created within it.

I know the others, but what does ecology have to do with it?

> And if there are defector predators that try to gain an edge by eating more than is sustainable, other predators will try to stop them from doing so.

You're talking about a virus, you know... an inert molecule.

Then what are you paying them for?

It never worked for me. I always got the impression the therapist was blowing smoke up my ass.

I also have a hard time rectifying the idea that you can pay someone to listen to you, and at the same time try and hold the belief they really care about and like you. If they care, why are they accepting money just to listen to you? To accept the premise of psychotherapy, and what they tell you in sessions, namely that they do care, it seems you need to achieve a suspension of disbelief that I never could.

I've always wondered what sort of damage that could do to you psychologically, holding that belief for a long period of time. I mean, the person who you place the most trust in, who knows you best, is also charging you an arm and a leg every week. You paid for their summer home.

Obesity is a body type, not a disease

Meanwhile, Taiwan is donating 2 million masks to the US:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-s...

They didn't try it along with Azithromycin. With this included, the most promising results were observed in the prior studies.

How long do you want to wait while people are dying? It has been in use since 1947 to treat malaria, and so we already really understand the risks.

Given the urgent nature of the disease, why would you not try it, even if there is a small chance it could end up saving someone's life?

And do you really believe that Trump, with his approval rating already at an all time high is worried about defeating Biden, who is showing signs of dementia?

It may be the least bad option, but it still fits the definition of propaganda. They are lying to the public.

I wasn't talking about a specific industry. And even if I was, a dozen passenger airlines go broke every two months? I'd like to request a citation on that one.

And I wrote more prudent, not “suddenly resilient”. Why don't you argue against what I actually wrote, rather then a straw man you made up?

You think that bailing all these companies out has no effect on how companies run their business going forward? And you claim I have an “innocent view of the world”...

Our genes are the software.

Not to mention family reunions would get weird when you are biologically exactly the same age as your great grandfather.

Why aren't we letting them fail instead of allowing these idiots to stay in business? Say American Airlines went bust. It's debtors would get its planes and other company assets, who would then in turn sell them to other airlines. A new airline might form to take its place, which would probably be a little more prudent than the last one.

I never said they didn't have full value. I'm just looking at what would happen to society in this sort of scenario. It may be harsh to say it, but there is a potential brightside whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.

There are some virii, such as dengue fever, where getting one strain, makes getting the next strain much worse. This is because the change to the immune system to fight off the first strain creates a new pathway for the second strain to use to infect.

Sounds like an improvement actually. Less people leeching off the system, either through welfare, or by being rich enough to just sit and live off savings. A young person with money would be more likely to start a company rather than just retire. Their productivity would help everyone.

People that do survive would be healthier to begin with. There would be more room, and less pollution.

More research put into medicine would help everybody live healthier lives. The economy would be less ecologically harmful allowing nature to flourish. In San Francisco, wild foxes are already starting to wander through the city. Imagine what it would be like after 20 years of this.

Overall, a much better place.