John L.
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Commented on COVID-19
We're all gonna die. Of ECONOMIC impact....
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Spanish flu mortality rate was something like 1.5% and I think there's some speculation that sanitary conditions (e.g., WWI front lines) made it worse....
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whitroth commented on
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About grass clippings.... https://richsoil.com/lawn/god.jsp My next door neighbor pays for a lawn service. I mow and leave it (electric mulching mower). I think my lawn looks as nice as his (when I mow it, which is not often enough)....
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whitroth commented on
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Never got that far. I still remember the review of the latest Dune book in Playboy in the mid/later seventies (yes, I did read it), where the reviewer commented that "When Mr. Herbert finishes the Dune series, somewhere around 1996, with Imperial Morticians of Dune....
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Erwin commented on
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Schools in the South Bay are closed until sometime in April. I'd guess they are low-balling for now. Next step is testing - with a much greater than exponential rise in cases. This will tend to justify extended 'shelter in place'. At that point, cases will follow, in the US and UK, probably an Italy-like trajectory at least until summer. (Probably depends on locality - I'm not sure how population density correlates with virus transmission.)...
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Roy commented on
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Spammer ahoy! @1226 [[ a mass dump - I'm surprised it was Herpes cures and not Trump Virus cures - mod ]]...
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matware commented on
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Adelaide has closed the borders to other states (for people), and I'v been lead to believe that schools will be closed (around Australia?) by Thursday. I expect there will be a 5-6 week lockdown announced by the end of next week the series continues to look like exponential (rather than sigmoid)....
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