...you'd need the whole planet to stay put for a couple of weeks... not going to happen. We need to learn to live with the virus until a vaccine is created (if ever). Thinking that clearing the virus out of your corner of the woods is game over is just silly. Lockdowns are not financially sustainable every time there's a re-incursion, and there will be reinfections.

Definition of walk back. transitive verb. US. : to retreat from or distance oneself from (a previously stated opinion or position) try not to say anything in the primary campaign that you might need to walk back in the general election.

...it's only a matter of time before we lose the Covid-19-Free award.
I can guarantee that we will not be doing another lockdown as the medicine was worse than the cure.
"How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Live with the Virus": Coddle your old & infirmed, bolster your hospitals, educate your citizens and just get on with life.
We should have wised up at week two of the lockdown.

They still mock SpaceX... every time a skunkworks StarShip pops it's lampooned on the junk media. Reality is that SpaceX is on a rapid development cycle and this happens. SpaceX knows that of course which is why they have a steady stream of StarShip prototypes running along the conveyor, each one more capable and smarter.

State lolly scramble of contracts with no regard to sensibility or optimisation.

Will the Boeing manned craft (if it ever makes it) be affected by politics over SpaceX? SpaceX will be out in the cold if Boeing manage to get a working, if not expensive, system going; got to look after the donors...

Quick search:

HN --> Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/

Thanks! I don't get out much... therefore I should fit in perfectly. ;)

Multiple strains...

Bad strains kill their host and terminate there; if no re-infections then that strain stops dead in it's tracks.
Mild strains don't kill their host, indeed the milder the symptoms the more prevalent that strain will go on to live long and if mild enough prosper.

Possibly the strain variants are close enough so that the mild strains infer immunity against the bad strains.

Obviously people on the edge of life may be affected as usual as it doesn't take much to be the straw that breaks the proverbial's back; these people, as usual, need to be protected.

...otherwise carry on and keep calm.

Though education always helps:

Distance.
Hand-wash.
Mask in high-density spaces.
Available margin in health system (staff, supplies & rooms).

The first two weeks of lockdown were fine for us in NZ; we didn't know what we were facing. Once it was pretty clear what the target of the virus was we should have refocused our efforts on hospitals, old-peoples-homes & the sick. Everyone else should have been sent back to work.

Hindsight is 20/20

Doh!

A hard question?

Then again...

Flat earthers
Anti-vaxxers
5G
Fake moon landings
CIA hit of Kennedy

Ok, that last one is probably right...

As the available work pool reduces (or increases) the "standard" week hours variable should be adjusted to suit. This variable could be adjusted after every census.

Same thing goes for retirement age... in fact retirement age should get this applied first as in the developed world we generally live beyond 70 years. It was originally designed to ease the average last 4-5 years of life.

Setting hard and fast constants against the human condition was just bas programming practice.

Yup, the big lolly scramble / spend doesn't go to the usual suspects... who strangely fund parties... and so the circle of life goes...

He is saying that for marketing reasons only... I doubt very much that he actually takes it.
Still, I'd love to see him french kiss a SARS-CoV-2 infected person...

Spanner... works...

$DrugCorp$ won't go for OSD [Open Source Drug]...
...nor will the governments that they fund...