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Comment Building Muscle is not the whole picture (Score 1) 67

More muscle maybe but not the same as strength. As Strength depends on several factors, muscle of course being only one of those. There is also muscle recruitment (how many muscle fibers can I get to fire at once) - this is nervous system factor; there is also coordination (how can I fire all the various muscles in a way to move this weight correctly) - this is a nervous system factor. So the nervous system factors must be trained by moving the weight in different ways and may require s sub-optimal weight that won't build you muscle but will make you stonger...so you can handle more weight - so then maybe you can build muscle. So my point is that it is still complicated and this "model" will not likely help us do anything in the way of human performance.

Comment Re:An easy and incorrect explanation (Score 1) 646

40 percent of all Covid 19 deaths were from .06 percent of the population. This population were those in Nursing homes and the majority of those nursing home deaths were in states (New York being one of them) where they mandated that Covid 19 positive patients be admitted to nursing homes (in clear violation of what the science said about the most at risk populations). Now indeed it does look like it very well may be nothing much more than the flu :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UvFhIFzaac

As far as Trump's comments about not sending people into a panic - that is what a leader does; try to prevent panic. We already had ridiculous such panics over toilet paper and other ridiculous items. Imagine what it may be like if we had full scale panic - panic serves nobody and hurts in the short and long run. Now look at what Trump DID early on? He implemented travel bans and cleared the way for private companies to develop a test and now Operation Warp Speed which is set to deliver a vaccine before the end of the year. Look at this in contrast to how Biden handled the H1N1 flu and to how Pelosi encouraged people to go to China town and berated Trump for the Travel bans...

Comment Re:So almost everyone in New York City had Covid-1 (Score 4, Interesting) 334

There have been at least 20,000 Covid deaths in NYC. A 0.4% death rate means 5 million symptomatic cases, A one third asymptomatic rate means 7.5 million total cases

The population of NYC is just over 8 million.

And 10,000 or more of those were from nursing homes and those were because they sent Covid-19 positive patients there....when they KNEW that the sick/elderly were the most vulnerable.They did the same thing in England.

Comment Wrong again... (Score 0) 212

NO...the problem is that people continue to build in flood areas, designed flood areas or otherwise and they build their houses out of wood and other material that is easily knocked over by wind or ruined by water...and the more people do this...the more is destroyed when a storm does come along.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 0) 493

Yes and the same should be done for those with STDs as that data should be considered public health information; as the public healthcare costs and risks in this area are far greater than, lets say measles as an example. You should be able to go to a government web site and enter a persons name to check and see if they have vaccinations, STDs, etc. /sarcasm

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