Latest guidance on lockdowns from the WHO is pretty much a straight jab at the US and its bootstrappy attitude. Lockdowns work but making someone who is already poor more poor without providing some kind of financial assistance (but that is socialisms!!) ends up worse in the end.

I am worried about the long term effects. They are now saying that there are increasing reports of breathing difficulties and potential neurological issues.

I am a little more optimistic but I too expect it will probably go back to what it was before not because of management but that most workers are inherently lazy. Sure they may find they get the most work done with no distractions but they will slowly get back to performing how they did in the office.

At that point Management will think they can get more out of them looking over their shoulder

Canada (Ontario to be specific) there is "executive-style" health care you can buy into as well. They don't bill OHIP by getting around the rules by being "preventative medicine"

Plus the US' move to more isolationist attitudes is reducing their influence on the world. Russia and China are loving this as it is allowing them to foster relationships as the US thumbs its nose at former allies

Looking at the attitude of the US for healthcare of being "Fuck You I got mine", this won't happen

Using confirmed numbers vs actual recovered vs deaths is like counting chickens before they hatch. The number will end up low but it is about 8% right now

2% is overall estimate not the current rate.

Currently there are 30k who have recovered and almost 2800 who died, that falls more along the line of 8%.
2 weeks ago it was closer to 20% fatality rate and as time goes on it will drop more. The only reason they bandy the 2% number is to stop panic from ensuing.

is a call blocker like the CPR brand callblockers but if you don't meet the white list then you get prompted to press a random key or leave a message. That would at least block the robocalls and allow legit callers a way to bypass.

But the big question is how many have recovered. Last stat I saw which was back when there were about 190 deaths was around 110 full recoveries.

Will feel a lot more comfortable when the numbers are reversed

From what I recall the intelligence agencies didn't really lie, they had info but it was speculous at best and highly circumstantial.

The runaround that Saddam was doing with UN inspectors was intentional as he thought they had legitimate weaponry. People were just being told to move stuff and not questioning why.

In reality the lying was being done to Saddam, he wanted to build them up but the sanctions were actually working in that they couldn't get the materials but no one was telling him that, they just snowed him for the funding.

The key person that the US evidence was based on was a defector who used the knowledge he had as a negotiation ploy to get out of there. I believe that he knew it was all BS and was afraid he was going to get caught.

The initial push to invade was from DoD as they were still hurt that Afghanistan was a CIA operation not theirs and they had toys they wanted to play with. CIA questioned the validity of the informant but was ignored as being bitter.

At literally the 59th minute of the 11th hour, they finally figured out the guy was lying but then it was too late to save face.

I go through mine and keep one extra of what I may need. Anything else I drop off at the Salvation Army they can sell them

Lucas kind of implied that was the case in two parts:
1. When Leia said Luke appeared to be short for a stormtrooper
2. Linking the stormtrooper banging his head in ANH with Jango doing the same thing
Now when he made Star Wars I don't think that was intentional but he may have had an idea about it later. Either way he will probably never admit it

Ditto, the included access to their music selection Google Play makes it even better. I had a subscription for the latter and when I found that out, I flipped to the Youtube subscription. I watch at least 60 hours a month of Youtube so for me it was worth it.

I worked for a Tier 3 ATM networking company. One of the clients was China, they had one of their core FRATM switches fail as they hadn't got around to patching it (or it couldn't be patched I wasn't privy to the exact details). Since the area was mainly agricutural in nature the Chinese govt didn't really care, continuous electricity was considered a luxury in that area at that time.