I expect that's the least of the challenges with this one weird trick (TM). It's not as if each patient is built identically, having identical requirements. This is an act of desperation.

Careful! Saying he's competent I think is going a bit far. At best you can say he doesn't have the same fondness for Twitter, nor the inability to maintain a coherent thought for greater than five minutes.

As amusing as that'd be it's not a thing.

Don't worry, the markets gave him the finger anyway (ouch!). We're looking for clarity, competence and leadership, not a vacuum. The panic and fear hiding just under the surface of Americans, investors, etc. is driven by and fueled by that vacuum.

You think his decision to close travel between Europe (excluding UK) for non-Americans was planned? What planet are you living on?

The US has highly skewed numbers due to the absence of aggressive testing. At this point only persons presenting with acute symptoms are getting tested and many are still being sent home without. The current leader in tests administered is South Korea followed closely by Guangdong, China. The US has administered three orders of magnitude fewer tests per-capita! It's a bunch of bulls*** in the name of political optics. Fed by gross mismanagement and incompetence that was be no means helped by this administration disbanding the US Pandemic Response team. Regardless, using South Korea as a model for mortality rate within a first world nation your margin of error in that calculation is much lower and while still scary high, no where near that reporting.

Perhaps to you

Measure the entropy of the data stream. It's not particularly difficult for those in the data science field.

That's alright. I'll see his "think of the children" and raise him a "HIPPA/HITECH". If he's still game after that, I'll drag in the PCI.

Maybe it isn't the same as the other circumstances. Perhaps if there's a possibility of truth to the claim it's not the same thing. Perhaps it's all a game of sorts--to get people to believe a lie. If it's not a lie then what kind of sport would it be?

Physics won't stop Moore's law any time soon. You fail to see that there exists a third-dimension. Progress doesn't happen simply through shrinking the wavelength of the lithography.

Moore's law claims that transistor count doubles every two years. Doesn't claim performance doubles. As for any programmer ever claiming they don't need to optimize...? I would expect they had very short careers.

Agreed. Moore's law isn't done by a long shot. Media companies thought they could make a buck or two with fear mongering articles about Intel, TSMC, et al having some challenges with yield on the shorter wavelengths as they pushed their lithography technology into deep ultra-violet. We're now into extreme ultra-violet and scaling down to 5nm is on many road maps. In addition, a shift into the third-dimension is well on its way. Of course it's harder to generate ad revenue without controversy and fear.

Of course he has. He's currently of the mind it's a ploy by the Democrats to ruin his reelection.

How many rolls of toilet paper do you keep on hand? How long would you last if retail supply dried up?