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Comment Re:Meanwhile, according to the science (Score 2) 65

And as we know, no OLDER ADULTS are involved in education. Children do the teaching, children cook the lunches, children answer the phones, children do the nursing and children run the security. Children empty the trash and children mop the floors. Children drive the other children to school.

Fucking idiot.

Comment Re:How to spot a Strawman? (Score 1) 280

Have you ever seen footage of families driving through animal parks and some animal sticks its head through a window and wreaks havoc while going after a bag of peanuts or popcorn? Just because one family a few minutes ahead did it successfully doesn't mean the next family isn't a group of fuckups about to screw the pooch. What intelligent individual doesn't observe an animal (or a child, and how many children has Trump knowingly had?) being fed and then when also allowed to feed them, doesn't try a small amount first to make sure they're not full? Dear god, I would not let Trump babysit or watch my pets while I'm on vacation, but he's the "leader of the free world."

I think you should keep bring up the koi, it's a great example of someone being oblivious to prior history, observable facts, etc..

Comment Re: How to spot a Strawman? (Score 1) 280

The cost, i.e. its actual market price, is subject to the usual supply and demand forces, which is apparently $174 for 60 pills currently (about $3/pill) https://www.goodrx.com/hydroxy... . But the hidden costs include the fact that it is normally used by a number of people for a variety of other conditions and now their lives are in danger.

Comment Re:Why they care (Score 1) 280

To answer your question, President Trump said Hydroxychloroquine looks like a promising treatment. Since he said it, it has to be bad. -Texmaize.

He actually said "HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You!"
https://twitter.com/realdonald...

I wonder what your motivation is when you change "one of the biggest game changers" to "looks like a promising treatment." Are you willful or delusional? Either way, why should anyone listen to you?

Comment Re:Resist by all means necessary, fair or foul (Score 1) 280

Trump supported it, so the MAGAers must support it by all means necessary, fair or foul.

LOL -- like the Trump opponent and democratic party politician that had COVID19 and publicly stated her condition improved under treatment. .

Since roughly 99.9% of all people recover from Covid-19, only a dumbass would think one anecdotal recovery had any significance at all. I'm not saying you're a dumbass, but you're a dumbass.

Comment Re:How to spot a Strawman? (Score 1) 280

Right. And this is the claim being tested here, that the treatment is effective right at the beginning of exposure, when the viral dose is low.

No, it is not.

Far more nuanced than either of you claimed. "The latest trial enrolled 821 patients who were either living in the same household as someone with Covid-19 or who were health care workers who had been exposed to someone with Covid-19 without adequate protective gear." Some of those people were exposed. However, we've all been learning how to lower exposure. Some people that suspected they were infected, for example, would quarantine themselves in a basement or the garage. Others, if not yet infected but had a high-risk job, made sure to wash their clothes the instant they go home (and sometimes quarantined in a separate part of the house). Thus some of those living with someone infected may have actually avoided exposure, at least before the trial started.

So this was probably a trial of both pre-exposure and initial-exposure people, but there was no way to measure which was which. It's not looking good for hydroxychloroquine though.

Comment Re:Air blast for more damage (Score 1) 82

The article doesn't go into detail on curvature. A fast-moving asteroid would curve slightly towards the Earth due to gravity, but the bouncing off the atmosphere would be in the opposite direction, tending to cancel out the effect of gravity (at the expense of some kinetic energy). We could thus picture the object's path as being linear, especially at higher rates of speed. If we graphed the object's height above the Earth's surface vs. time, initially there would be a steep decline as the object approaches, a flattening as the object passes parallel and closest to the surface, and then a steepening incline as it moves away again.

If we consider that the atmospheric pressure decreases exponentially with height, we can see that the vast majority of the interaction with the atmosphere is going to occur in the relatively small portion of the graph where it flattens. The air density is by far the highest here, the object is moving fastest here, so most of the energy will be released here and it's closest to the surface, and if enough energy is released it will result in a roughly spherical explosion the same way that a thermonuclear device will even though the bomb itself isn't radially symmetrical. That isn't to say that other parts of the asteroid's trajectory aren't also releasing a shock wave, it's just that only one part of it is .strong enough to flatten trees.

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