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Yet another article that looks at the stats we are using to get a handle on the actual prevalence of the virus. See: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/us-coronavirus-outbreak-out-control-test-positivity-rate/610132/ Well … not what you would call good news. Let's hope that...

The relevant thing here is the $22B. One thing that we need to keep in mind is the horrendous debt structure of most corporations, both US and foreign. If their markers are called in - and that could easily happen as things get tough - then the level of collapse could become really serious. I...

Your lack of faith in free enterprise is shocking.

Read the First Amendment. You have a right to peacefully assemble. What constitutes peaceful assembly is a decision made by governments themselves. You can take them to court - and, no doubt, someone will - but you can't assemble in a way that disturbs the peace. The government in Mississippi...

So … how about supply chains? See: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-covid-19-is-wreaking-havoc-on-our-ability-to-make-things-including-vaccines/ 538 does it again. What's most scary about this to me is that we still haven't used the DPA to force production on industries. Why? Anybody's...

Or you could just go to the nets and find out how to trim your beard yourself. That's what I did and it worked. Not for a real trim - you need another eye for that - but for getting rid of the strays, it's fine.

The DoJ. As it happens, I ran across this just this morning: https://www.lawfareblog.com/long-history-coercive-health-responses-american-law Here's the actual article, if you want all the gory details...

I bet they lose. We'll see.

That's up to the governors. They're responsible to the electorate. What they decide are "essential" businesses is (usually) within their power to decide in an emergency. And I can see their point on this. It is a lot easier for owners to regulate customers in a liquor store then for pastors to...

That's a bit extreme, but (if true; I didn't see this story) it would probably still pass constitutional muster in the present situation. Mississippi is playing catch-up here; they were late to social distancing and shelter-in-place. If the governor used his emergency powers to generally forbid...

I don't have much to add to this except that constitutional rights are always conditional on maintaining public order and preventing widespread harm to others. You are right; nobody's worship was being infringed on here, given the present conditions. If we weren't in the middle of a pandemic...

So why shut down this time? 538 to the rescue again! See: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-did-the-world-shut-down-for-covid-19-but-not-ebola-sars-or-swine-flu/ I already knew some of this, but this is such a good summary I thought I'd pass it along.

If it were a matter of money, we should change our healthcare delivery system tomorrow. As it is the costs are astronomical in relation to the results. But enough on this here.

A vaccine would be calculated to generate a massive immune response. But … we won't know the full parameters until we have one. We can probably get one faster for COVID-19 because, unlike SARS and MERS, a vaccine batch screw-up is a lot less likely to kill people. We're lucky this one is only as...

Yes to this. It isn't that the healthcare system here doesn't deliver at all; it does. And, like other wealthy countries, it can and does deliver very well. My mother died awhile ago and I have no complaints about how she was treated. She had Medicare and, while not wealthy, was well off. She...

As in, say, this study?: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2019 I mean you can twist on this hook as long as you want, but our healthcare system costs more and delivers worse results then others in comparably developed...

You're right. I meant Euros. My bad.

Who in Heavens name told you that? It's better then ours on almost every indicator (who isn't?), but it's a long way from the best. I'd nominate France or Germany for that. Fun fact: the French charge everybody who goes to the doctor about F100 right up front, no matter what's wrong with them...

I looked at it. I'm not competent to evaluate the medical conclusions, but with 124 subjects at one center in one country using a retrospective cohort design the power (i.e. the chance that the study's results will replicate) is pretty low. That such a high proportion of the subjects were males...

Now, now. My father's family is from Mississippi. But there's no reason to deny the truth; it's a poor state and the leadership it elects has usually made things worse. My folks down there are the first to admit it too.