there are a number of well documented cases of aircraft ditching and people inflating life-jackets inside the aircraft and people needlessly ending up drowned.

Citation?

I can't recall ever seeing that in a description of an airplane accident, but I don't read about all of them....

the states just seed control

Cede. Try not to write words you've never seen in print.

That still doesn't explain sending him home with antibiotics for what looked like a viral infection

Antibiotics to deal with secondary infections resulting from a viral illness aren't exactly unusual. Nor are they necessarily medically wrong.

Umm, your quote uses the phrase "state law". The ACA, which makes that whole pre-existing condition thing illegal is FEDERAL law.

Might want to check up on Supreme rulings about the primacy of Federal law....

That's more than 3X the rate of the Spanish flu of 1918 that killed... a third of the western world or some damn thing.

Well, if 3% is 1/3, then you're right.

Otherwise, your estimates for the 1918 flu are a bit off, and I'll assume your other estimates are similarly off....

if the benchmark for what is legal is your own preference, you are a parasite on society to that same degree.

I'm curious - does that apply to marijuana users? If so, how was illegal marijuana use fundamentally different than this?

*shrugs*

Feel free to panic, then. I suggest a cabin in a remote corner of Alaska.

Go there, avoid all human contact for at least ten years.

You should be safe by then, so you can rejoin the world no later than early 2025....

Uh, Ebola spreads through contact, so by your logic it still wouldn't be time to be concerned if every last person on earth contracted the disease...

By my logic, if you people start getting ebola with no KNOWN ebola contact, it's time to think about maybe panicking.

Because that would mean an unidentified reservoir of ebola in the country. Which is potentially disastrous.

So long as we have a clear eye on patient zero and everyone in contact with him, we don't need to be terribly worried....

For those who said "No need to panic" ... are we there yet?

No.

We MIGHT (and I stress "might") be getting to time to panic the first time we get an ebola victim who hasn't been to Africa, and hasn't been in contact with any known Ebola victim.

Note that this case is one of the 48 people who are currently being monitored due to contact with that ebola victim who brought it here from Africa.

Well, no.

From TFA, the absolute error closely approximates 0.000000000000000000004.

So you'll only see a relative error as large as you're showing (off in the fifth decimal place), if the correct answer is something like 0.000000000000000012345, which might show up as 0.000000000000000012344.

Pakistan and India have been hostile since they first were separated from each other, but they're not so different!!

The people of Pakistan and the people of India have been hostile toward each other much longer than that. Of course, they weren't "people of Pakistan and India" before the end of British rule of what is now India and Pakistan.

About the only period they weren't hostile was during the Raj, when the British tried to prevent that sort of thing.

Note that during the post-British period, when they were split into two countries, the Hindus living in what is now Pakistan were attacked by their Muslim neighbors and driven out of the country.

Likewise, during the same period, the Muslims living in what is now India were attacked by their Hindu neighbors. This reached the point that trainloads of Muslims fleeing to Pakistan were stopped by the Indian Army and machinegunned before being allowed to continue into Pakistan.

Surely this gesture will make them realize this and they'll have no choice but to bury the hatchet, that's just how human psychology works.

Bury the hatchet in each other's head, yes.

The way you mean it, no.

And do you really know so little of human psychology?

Umm, no.

4000 km^2 != 4 Mm^2.

4000 km^2 = 0.004 Mm^2.

I will do the math. .59* 80 = 47.2 which is 0.16% of 29,000.

Over seven years. The CO2 figure just covers one year, so it's actually a lot closer to 0.024%...

If they're made from someone else, the patient has to take immunosuppresive drugs.

Depends on the quality of the match. For my bone marrow transplant, they found a truly excellent match (no, it wasn't from a relative). I'm two years past the transplant, and haven't taken immunosuppressive drugs for seven or eight months now. No ill effects, not even any GVHD (Graft Vs. Host Disease), which used to manifest as rashes on the backs of my hands/wrists fairly regularly....