My guess would be because the education system and on the job training there has a different focus. Same as the main reason that few athletes come from the country outside of cricket - different priorities. Once IT and medicine are saturated then am sure other spheres will follow.

Yes, and I am saying it is a spectrum - from indivuduals causing actual harm (we have all seem plenty) to the individuals thay havent left their homes since March.

I fully promote anything that reduces R0 and helps us get past this sooner (just small flare ups here and there as in Hong Kong with 84 infections being a massive deal, or local lockdowns in Germany/UK). Will be very interesting to see what happens in the next 2 years

You can wear a mask most of the time indoors (e.g. in shops but not at home), wear it all the time even when walking around alone.

You can socially distance in a paranoid manner or "sensibly" or barely at all or run around hugging strangers.

You can use varying quality hand sanitisers or wash your hand with varying degrees of hot water for varying amounts of time with soap.

This is NOT binary but more people doing the right thing helps us all. If half the world stays at home R0 falls by roughly half. Every little helps

That's almost like my idea of invading Canada.

Change colour to yellow from red.
Change Maple Leaf to Banana.
Rename Country Banana.
Lock changes into law and give the country.

Still 50% A, eh :)

So roughly 2.5-2.6% per annum inflation in housing prices? That is not very high...

Uhm... Your uncle had crushed them from larger rocks => they are man-made, no?

In some cases, yes. Some peoples bodies do not feed the correct signals.

In most cases those people are confused and do not know what "Hungry" actually is and associate another feeling (maybe "Not completely satiated"?) with the need to gorge...

Like people who have never been truly thirsty and cannot appreciate water

Xperia Z Ultra - biggest phone that comfortably fits in a suit/jacket pocket - absolutely love it.

Too thin sadly, my old one got a screen crack that damaged the touch capabilities (aka bricked it) but my Samsung S6 Edge+ whatever had a charging interface issue and I needed something working whilst I was travelling - found a second-hand Ultra and have just adored having it back. Several things could be improved but it does 99%+ of what I require and is many years old now.

Why go with a bazooka when you can get a Nuke - a lil 'Un?

Helps with mankinds carbon footprint after the media furore passes (on a simplistic basis - taking out USAians - actually wondering how much extra electricity/fuel would be used as a result of this, how many flights affected, etc, etc - net impacts).

Extremist Buddhism is terrifying...

Damn I love balance in nature - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Haul an extra 1-2 carriages at the back of the train holding water (at the start of a journey) at near 0 degrees or even ice (energy for phase change - solid to liquid - is huge) and use that to sink the heat from the carriages.

At end of the line, dump the warmed up water/melted ice and refill?

I believe that mankind is at least somewhat responsible for the increase in the energy of the system (atmosphere). Whether that is a bad thing is a different question (I think more energy system is a good thing overall, long term, but expensive if we try to continue living as we do, relocating settlements, etc...).

Problem with the venn diagram is that it is the same argument as believing in "God".

Cannot believe the obligatory has not been posted...

https://xkcd.com/327/