STOP comparing this to the flu! It's totally irresponsible! Mis-information is literally going to kill people because they are too dumb to put a mask on or stay home.

When the flu happens, it doesn't overload our hospitals. The flu also isn't air borne, making it much easier to control. If you catch the flu and are young and healthy and just need IV and a little O2, you there's enough capacity at the hospital for you to get it an live a few years and then catch it again. SARS-CoV-2 is airborne and can aerosolize, living in the air for up to 9 hours after an infected person has been in a particular space. Thus it is spreading much more rapidly and has more than a 45x the death rate according to the WHO (and the WHO only gives us the conservative to prevent panic) We haven't even seen all of this iceberg's tip yet and don't have enough test kits to push it back under. It will get MUCH worse without a drug treament or China like quarantine. What's happening in Italy, hasn't happened with the flu since 1918.

Pull your head out of the sand. Here's the Standard and Poor by president: https://www.macrotrends.net/24... [macrotrends.net]

If he's gonna claim credit when the markets are up - seems more than fair to blame this on him.

Besides, given how much he loves to gas-light, it is likely he wanted us to have a shortage of test kits so we can't count the actual number of people dying of SARS-CoV-2 virus because, in his words " I like the numbers being where they are." There are many suspected death in those nursing homes in WA that the CDC is denying tests to.

Nnot having a "pandemic response chain" at the CDC because he cut funding for it certainly doses not help. Also cutting other funds to the CDC pushed them to place all there eggs in one basket (all there tests in 1 kit) rather than co-developing many tests at once and then just choosing the best, and having something to fall back on if there were problems. We all know how that turned out...

I like https://covid19info.live/ better, also https://www.worldometers.info/ is useful when trying to get a handle on the actual death rate. In the mean while: don't touch your face without washing your hands immediately prior, and self isolate as much as possible.

I think you forget that we elected someone who said "Mexico will pay for the wall".

Mod this up! Plenty of "healthy" doctors dying too. It seems a mask and protective gear isn't enough for this virus as it aerosolizes, goes around your face shield/glasses and into your eyes. If we are in a voluntary-quarantine situation you'll want a full face n99 mask, gloves and disposable outer clothing before heading to Walmart to buy food.

The WHO doesn't get to name viruses, scientists do; it's called "SARS-CoV-2".

COVID-19 is the (stupid) name for the clinical manifestation of it (like HIV vs AIDS) because China has the WHO in it's pocket and doesn't want people to think it's novel and not just a mutant form of the virus that has to do with the filthy living conditions in the country.

It's less about the screen and more about what's on it. ,

Sesame street is garbage these days, I'd be reluctant to let a 4 y/o watch it, just a ton of high pitched puppets running around screaming. Not exactly the behavior I want modeling for a child. I looked into paw patrol - even worse....

On the other hand, giving your child access to things (including video) you are already teaching them with a very high signal to noise ratio should start as soon as you bring them home.

My 54-week old son already knows the phonetic and regular alphabet in Spanish and English because of super-simple songs method of teaching it and my constant reading to him (1-2 hrs a day of reading). He still doesn't have the dexterity to say 's' and 'l' and "double" in 'w' but has the rest down solid.

Due to the issue of accidentally placed fingers causing the app to exit, I've resorted to a pen-based etch-a-sketch like device to teach drawing letters, even though I think the apps could potentially do a better job.

There a lot of things deeply wrong with how the US economy is structured. Looking locally make one wonder how its even possible to argue that this should be allowed until you realize they extend these policies onto the rest of the world to make up for our massive trade deficit.

I'm a bit extraverted, but still, find other people's noises in an otherwise quite working environment distracting at times (but not always). However what will almost always shut me down is white noise from an air handler or a lab refrigerator - it doesn't matter how rested I am, I either space out or start to nod off when subject to these (in proportion to their volume). I have to keep a pair of noise-isolating headphones on hand to write anything more than 10 lines in such situations. If there's a social interaction happening, the noise is less problematic provide I can still hear the person and I'm engaged with what they are saying.

Meh - between recent discoveries and CRISPR I'd put money down that it will be cured in less than 10 years: https://www.nature.com/article...

The goal post isn't going to be move here; the OP seems to be trying to get you to admit that you've only ever asked a 'personal god' for proof of his/her/its existence, which isn't the same as a universal consciousness...

People are so sick of Trump that they are voting for the guy who is least likely to be taken down by one of his lies or chants. Sanders and Warren while, better people, seem like easy targets for anti-socialism fear-mongering. And Trump has already shown us once that Fear is a better motivator than positivity. That said, you really should check out Buttigieg; on any given policy, he's a much stronger candidate than Yang and has a good mix of insider/outsiderness.

Sorry to break it to you but your "belief" that you are "deeply connected to the history of the broader universe" is a type of spirituality. And, your ability to "see a deep kinship to my fellow humans and a desire to nurture them" is what many who are 'spiritual' but not 'religious' define as a "connected soul". ...just because you don't believe in the Religious fairy tales about what happens to souls doesn't mean you don't have one.