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GabrielsHorn

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  1. While that's a good point, him being absent from the Day of the Sun and Military Foundation Day isn't a good sign for his health.
  2. Always wanted to hike Denali and Kilimanjaro and run the NYC marathon. in terms of right after this is over, I don’t think I want to spend an entire weekend at home for a long, long time. Even getting out to hike for at least half a day is going to feel like paradise.
  3. The Daily for a few months now (and Freakonomics from Wednesday) both are pointing out that China is doing a huge propaganda push across the world, but particularly in their own boarders, due to this. They are really trying to downplay their role in this from multiple levels of them fucking up, and it really needs to not be ignored how bad they handled this in the future. Just like the SARS pandemic led to a loss in faith in their government, this damn well better do a similar thing. While the US and others really dropped the ball on how this was handled and need to consider multiple things in the future, this is surely going to have huge geopolitical ramifications for China in the world... it's just a question of how successful China is at pushing their propaganda and using their own economic tools in SE Asia and Africa.
  4. In general, I agree with the rest of your post, but wanted to point out a few things. Wet markets are not the same as exotic wildlife markets (Source). Wet markets exist throughout the world, even in North America, but the exotic wildlife markets are of particular concern in China due to the animals that are sold at them. While it is a cultural issue, not having these exotic wildlife markets in the middle of a major metropolitan area would be a signficant help to prevent the jump of viruses between the species and were specifically warned about during the SARS pandemic. We need to continue to pressure their closure as they are one of the biggest risks we have for the jumps of these kind of viruses to humanity. Even if it goes underground, it would still drive down the amount of wildlife that would be openly sold in these densely populated areas that can transmit the diseases.
  5. It’s just so poetic and perfect this is happening to Rodgers.
  6. It’s just so poetic and perfect this is happening to Rodgers.
  7. Sloan’s has been pretty bad this entire time unfortunately as the density of people makes it tough to maintain 6 ft. From someone in the Highlands, the vast majority of people have been doing a good job, even along the River trail, but you get the occasional morons who are playing basketball, throwing a football, or disregarding the tape and doing pull-ups. Traffic seems like it’s increasing though as it’s taken me a bit longer to get to Bonfire from the middle of March to now. Cant really complain all that much though as Polis has done a good job. Surprised there isn’t a mandatory order to use face coverings here yet though Hancock could easily do that.
  8. Ha, it would definitely require some government funding or creating incentives to build it. They also discussed using our allies that we trust to not make faulty medical equipment (South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, etc) to help and also help with our global partnerships. It definitely would be complicated and costly, but would help significantly in the long run to either get China to actually play ball or weaken them by strengthening our partners in East Asia.
  9. Uh, just two counter points off the top of my head. Exhibit A: Abbott developing a test rapidly into this, even though there are issues scaling production and getting it to people. Exhibit B: The modern space race between labs to develop a vaccine that has been going on since the genome was decoded in January.
  10. Our reliance on them for our healthcare needs is not good. Freakonomics today interviewed two people who focus on US-China relations, and the idea they floated was viewing health care (PPE, antibiotics, etc) as a national security issue for other resources due to China’s actions during this pandemic. Hard to argue against it at this point, even if it would be costly.
  11. Hopefully he got to drink a margarita and listen to Katie Perry’s Firework one last time.
  12. Probably just a relic of all of these models using data as it comes (and as the data evolves based on CDC guidelines) and how we are still pretty close to the peak. By Wednesday, we’ll have a much better idea of where this first peak is.
  13. I had been wondering how this virus was able to spread like wildfire through the west, but it hadn't seen as quick of a spread in less developed parts of the world. This may be a case where it's really undercounted as they don't have the testing. Also in bad news from across the world:
  14. Hey, actual things to discuss instead of shit flinging! itll be interesting to see how widespread it actually was spread based on that testing as it seems like most states are pushing for these quick tests to figure out when to re-open. We’ll hopefully have more data on this in the US than previous viruses, which should really help recalibrate our models for both this outbreak as well as future ones.
  15. Any of these re-opening plans need to be pretty malleable for being able to swing the quarantine hammer / levels of social distancing between regions and cities. However, hopefully there’s more coordination between countries so Tarrant and Dallas don’t differ for example. Either way, we’ll find out in less than an hour for Texas. I know here in Colorado they are looking to “re-open” on April 26, but it’s still unclear what that means beyond the 15 minute tests at Walgreens.
  16. Hopefully y’all don’t get screwed like with what CU-Boulder did with the deposits. on the other hand, this should be a great year for the CAP program too. Will be easier to focus with all this crazy stuff.
  17. Doesn't look like it provided you can maintain a consistent 6 ft of seperation per KXAN's pdf link to the order.
  18. It seems like most of the changes that the countries that are making changes are stuff we already do (e.g. allow construction and manufacturing jobs to come back a la Spain) or opening things that we clearly shouldn’t yet (e.g. Nordic countries reopening schools in mid-May). Right now, probably need to keep waiting until casas and deaths continue to decrease further before making the changes that really would affect a lot (re-opening restaurants and non-essential stores).
  19. It's crazy how much the pollution levels have decreased in India. Below are some photos of the Himalayas from places that haven't had a view of them in 30 years.
  20. Norway and Denmark both have to be pretty pissed at Sweden for not implementing the quarantine / shelter in places measures on the same timeline as them.
  21. Again, my point wasn’t that Texas or other parts of the world are ready to loosen restrictions based on the measures and testing they’ve implemented, but moreso that decisions to loosen restrictions aren’t just a third world decision. There are going to be some very difficult decisions ahead for all of the world until we can get a vaccine.
  22. Those 15 minute tests from Abbott will really be key. It sounds promising, but they really need to scale up how many tests are being provided.
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