StringJunky

Yeah, all countries outside the far east pussy-footed until it was on top of them. The US administration is currently, and earnestly, attempting to shift the blame for its inaction elsewhere.... typical Trump stuff.

From what I've just read about him on an organic chemist's blog, he would appear be what Trump would be like if he was a microbiologist i.e no different.

What is it about a young person's physiology that makes them less susceptible?

Isn't hindsight so clear and obvious?

I wonder how Bolsonaro is going to live down "...just a little flu".

Trump's not doing a bad job (of corrupting the system). Where are the people policing the system?

They need a new constitution because this administration is showing just how fragile and full of holes it is that they can exploit. It seems to me that a dedicated autocrat could corrupt this system. Trump's not doing a bad job.

I read some lung specialists are diverging from intubation, wondering if it's causing more harm than good, and trying to establish what's actually happening in the alveoli. They are trying clot busters and blood thinners to try and keep their patients alive. It looks like research is happening in the field in the raw. It must be very taxing for them.

Just read Japan is offering Favipiravir to countries for testing.

I think the main problem is the Supreme Court, as a part of checks and balances, has a partisan foundation. It needs to be, in principle, apolitical in its composition and, therefore, judgements.

I don't think it's an inherent problem with the CDC, it's been ok until now, it's a problem of White House administration overreach. It's just one more symptom of this administration's apparent desire to to corrupt the machinery of governance and oversight to their own ends.

The visualization problem is the same as infinitely big. At the end of the day, it's a problem with the model in question.

Picture yourself travelling between two intersecting lines and yourself getting smaller in proportion as the lines get closer. When will you reach the end?

But you said: What is the dimension of a point at the apex? Vanishingly small. It is not zero.

Infinitely small = Vanishing spatial extension.

I'd never have believed it. It is really sad for America that your hunch was correct.

The BBT is a consequence of extrapolating the cosmological expansion in reverse and it is what General Relativity describes but it loses validity as you approach the zero point. Basically, it's a limit of scientific knowledge and GR and not an actual boundary.

Someone should tell Trump: https://twitter.com/i/status/1246556219311079425

And kill people:

Yes, reading those it would seem, being a cheerleader, he is causing more problems than solving.

Is this because Trump is promoting it without foundation but has influence in what they look at?

Transferring that signal to your brain first for reflection? Yes.

Yes, I think one could go down that road with it. Counter-instinctual behaviour supports it, I think. Yes, I think it's part of their self-discipline training.

Yes. I said: "You can choose not to act on it". You don't have to physically freak out, following with some random action that may be more dangerous than the threat. I like bats but that one was initially just a shadow with no apparent cause... like a ghost.