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I recently bought a BMW GS310 motorbike for 5.5k (new, not used), that is just 500 Euros more than my Mountainbike did cost. Sure, the BW is an entry level model, and the MTB is upper class, but still. Mountainbike prices are a rip off, especially if you consider that after 3 years you will have problems getting spare parts for some stuff on the bike.

"but I'll believe it when I see it."

And what will do you do then?

Once the population ... figures out that ... people are using phones/fax machines/drums/smoke/whatever to coordinate their plans to set the cities on fire, they are dead via regulation.

> The combination of preprint servers + twitter

Filtering noise with noise?

Instead of this marketing theater, they could help to improve battery life under Linux which still sucks.

As long as you can ignore it is ok. /s

Depends.

Those technical problems can be overcome. It is no fun, a waste of time and frustrating. The real shitshow starts when your app is in the play store and you try to find users. Or when Google makes some changes that completely invalidate your app idea or force you to change your complete app.

Doing a Google search 'site:reuters.com "far right"' I couldn't find any hit where the "far-right" would be inappropriate. Could you give an example where Reuters is left-leaning in your opinion.

why?

You are two weeks behind with testing. There is no rest of the country anymore.

What is a company supposed to do with the money currently? Hoarding cash is the only sensible option currently and this doesn't help the economy.

Most people in the US won't even know how many zeros a trillion has.

With three weeks time and enough testing India should be able to get reliable numbers. I guess the three weeks are the minimum time for the lockdown.

> When community spread was detected in Washington state ... Testing wasn't the problem.

If you detect community spread without testing you are too late anyway.

When the cruise industry gets a bailout, it is not to save the cruisers but the financial corporations, which have been financing this madness.

> Want to have a less steep curve? Lower the amount of testing.

That works only at the beginning.

> consumer demand is going to be probably the highest it's ever been the moment the quarantines are lifted.

Happy debt bubble land is over, for a long time.

> maybe it wouldn't be a terrible idea.

It is a terribly stupid idea.

Our only hope is too flatten the curve.

> will it go back

In theory this might be true. But with the current corporate debt bubble not all will survive this recession.

It is astonishing that even on a side like hn people are not capable of understanding some simple maths.

10% of infected persons need intensive care including ventilation.

The US has 100k intensive care unit beds. About 90% are already occupied.

If only 10% get infected at the same time, the health system will be totally overwhelmed.

If 30% get it at the same time, millions will be left dying.

I am missing the words to describe the stupidity of a Corona party.

As it stands, scientists do not know how temperature changes will influence the behavior of SARS-CoV-2.

Or grandma will help out, bad for the death rate.

Read it again. They did not do a covid19 test at all.

Does it make a difference what exactly is causing the costs? If you are broke you can't afford to be tested and you will continue to spread the virus if you have it.

As long as you have enough intensive care units with a lung ventilator that 1-2 % might be correct. But 10% develop pneumonia and require ventilation. If only about 10% of the population gets infected the health system would be overwhelmed. After that, even a simple flu might become a live threating experience.

I am looking for

"The worst case scenario right now is that some people might lose their grandparents a couple years early"

in those numbers, but I can't find anything like this.

> The worst case scenario right now is that some people might lose their grandparents a couple years early

Any sources for that theory?

Last time when the Basler Fasnacht was cancelled was 1920, during the Spanish flu ...

Not as bad as the Spanish flu isn't really assuring:

> The global death toll was inconceivable: according to the most recent estimates, between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide perished in the three pandemic waves between the spring of 1918 and the winter of 1919. Adjusting for population growth, that is equivalent to between 200 million and 425 million today.