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I have to disagree here. What you are describing is the way basic science often looks to those who have no idea about what it does; i.e. the politicians who have been in charge of CDC/NIH funding. Most scientific research has no immediate payoff at all and most of it turns out to be a dead end...

Well said. We've been short changing our basic lines of defense for something like COVID-19 for years. The CDC is easy to cut; the doctors and researchers can't fight back too hard (Hatch Act) and they're there to help us mainly in crises situations that by definition don't often show up. Also...

Problem with this approach = we need to test a vastly larger part of the population then we are doing now in order to get a valid statistical/demographic profile of the disease. That's especially needed in the US because its territory is so large and we have many areas with low population...

If the anti-virals come on line - and let's hope for everyone's sake that they do that soon - then, yes, the article's estimates are off. But there's no guarantee that whatever we come up with will work well enough to help the over 70 (yikes) crowd. The anti-virals for flu sorta work and, God...

Btw, in re: the transition from the Obama to the Trump administration, see: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797 Pretty much what Lewis says, iow. This story is The Fifth Risk personified. The slides are interesting too.

Here's the report that led to the sudden sobering of tone by the Trump administration yesterday: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf No wonder. The prognosis for deaths is daunting, even with...

I know what you mean. I'm in the same trap, due to illness ("flu-like"), then a pinched nerve in my back. Ever since Christmas exercise has been difficult. All the same: Stop it! Don't go to the gym. Period. It's dangerous. Besides, it's more interesting around here with you posting.

Just so everybody will remember: There was a transition team headed by Chris Christie that interviewed Obama administration officials, prepared a seven volume report on each agency and where they were as of the takeover, and suggested new officials to take over in political appointments. The...

Forgot one of my favorites. For Maryland: the Twerps.

Will Tech ever have as good a collection of WRs as we did in 1990? All of them 2 and even 3 deep could have started with any team in the country. Let's hope we can put something resembling that crowd during Collins's tenure.

You think this is a step too far? Goto: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/europe/ireland-cancels-st-patricks-day-trnd/index.html I never thought I'd see the day.

Or you can just tell them to grow up and quit acting like fools. And if they don't sanction the living Hell out of them.

Here you go: Ok, you have to watch the whole game, but this was probably the best defensive game by a Tech team in the last 30 years. We won 7 - 3 against the Fridge. I was there and loved every second. We got a lead and then sat on the ball like a slug for the rest of the game. It was...

That's what it says on the website. Reality is much different. As Wilber found out quickly, to his chagrin.

You can bribe politicians, at least indirectly. We've made our election financing controls so lax that's possible. But … most politicians operate using Unruh's Rule (he was long time speaker of the California House): "Look, kid. If you can't eat their food, drink their liquor, take their money...

Yes, this is a "black swan" event. But … how do you plan for it? A good start would be to maintain the NSC unit dedicated to planning for pandemic disease. That outfit would have been able to coordinate the entire federal - and, by extension, state and local - response to a new disease threat...

Or the one I always use for VT: the Turkies. This has the virtue of being an exact description. And it's "da U" for Miami.

The answer is one word: Thalidomide. The European countries and Japan let the drug be used extensively for a bunch of purposes, including dealing with nausea during pregnancy. And, sure enough, the drug works to this day - it's still widely used - for a bunch of complaints including controlling...