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You appear to have described what your "ASD" is like, but not actually said what it is. How is it useful? Can you use it to calculate known results in general relativity and quantum theory? You haven't shown any mathematics. If you can't do that, then it isn't a theory of anything, and certainly not a theory of everything.

Probably. Not knowing whether it was or not is not the same as saying it can't be.

Why would it be pseudoscience? Inflation and the cyclic universe are just two ways of explaining various aspects of the early universe: mainly the uniformity (the "horizon problem"). Do you have scientific evidence in favour of one model over the other? Or is this just a personal preference for one model? As far as I can tell, they both have the same amount of evidence; i.e. both are consistent with the existing evidence.

Nonsense. It was proposed my several people, based on General Relativity. The astronomer and physicist Lemaitre used data (later known as Hubble's Law, and now as the Hubble-Laemaitre Law) to estimate the rate of expansion and age of the universe. If it had been proposed purely for religious reasons then it would have been ignored or quickly abandoned. The reason it is still the accepted cosmological model is because of the evidence. (Bizarrely, a lot of fundamental religions are opposed to the Big Bang model, possibly because it is based on relaitvity which they associate with moral relavitiy. But who know. It is hard to understand the motives of people that stupid.) The Big Bang is a class of models based on the clear evidence that the universe is expanding and was, therefore, once much hotter and denser than now. There are multiple explanations for how it got into that hot dense state. So the first of your models IS (a version of) the Big Bang. There is no evidence for that version of the model yet. Penrose has supported this model and claimed that there were patterns in the CMB that support it but this is not generally accepted (yet). The second appears to pseudoscientific nonsense. I don't know where it comes from but does not appear to be consistent with any of the evidence.

I am not aware of any good evidence for this. Can you provide a reliable source.

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Patient: Doctor, what is it? Doctor: Well, it's a very serious disease. Patient: Can it be treated? Doctor. Yes. But I'm afraid I couldn't be bothered to learn the name (too much cheap cider!) so I can't look it up and find the treatment. Patient: ... ? Doctor: Uhm, ... have you made a will?

You'll be saying "it's only semantics" next. Of course the meanings of words matter. If you don't care, then maybe just shrug and walk away and remain ignorant of the definitions of those terms. Why attack people for wanting to know what words mean? What next? Burning books? Sheesh.

Don't hold your breath.

I don't think we know what magnetism "is" any more than we know what gravity "is". In both cases we have theories that describe how they work. Those might also describe "reality" but we have no way of knowing. But kudos for saying "gravitational wave" and not "gravity wave"!

There is no evidence that dogs can either transmit the virus or become ill from it: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/animals.html

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You need to provide some evidence for this. (Or, to put it another way: I don't believe you.) Your claim that "There are no reliable tests for a specific COVID-19 virus" appears to be false. For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988269/ https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/peiris-protocol-16-1-20.pdf?sfvrsn=af1aac73_4 https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/advance-article/doi/10.1093/clinchem/hvaa029/5719336

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Bit of data here: http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioNotizieNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=italiano&menu=notizie&p=dalministero&id=4322 Follow the links to summary tables. And more here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ I can't immediately find anything on total death rates (all causes). But one thing worth noting is that well over half the deaths are in one region, Lombardia (and mainly in a small part of that). The top two regions account for 74% of all Covid-19 deaths. Whereas the normal (per capita) death rate is presumably fairly evenly distributed over the country. Also, it is thought that the death rate due to Covid-19 may be much higher in Lombardia because they are not able to test everyone who dies. And the overstretched health service may mean that more people are dying of other causes than they would do otherwise.

Citation needed. The piano? Designed by a piano designer. Predicted by a computational chemist. First manufactured by a chemist. First theorised by a physicist. Further refined by other physicists and chemists. Manufactured by physicists and chemists. Invented by two German engineers. Started by software engineers and money men. All the advances you mention were made by experts in their field. (You might have been able to find a couple of examples from mathematics and astronomy; they are among the few areas where outsiders do occasionally make significant contributions.) Not a single one was the result of some random person with no expertise in the subject making uninformed suggestions. But this is just another off-topic hijack by the conspiracy minded. So we will leave it there.

I'm quite sure that medical researchers with years of experience and expertise will be thrilled to see all these suggestions from random people on the internet. I bet they have been really struggling to come up with ideas.

I would certainly ban the massive cruise ships; they bring no money to the local economy. (Dare I say it, just to the pockets of those who authorise them.) (But this is off topic, so enough said.)

I think it was too polluted from all the boats (fish may have been there but not visible) and cruise liners. I must admit, I only read the headline not the article so it could be exaggerated!

Fish and swans in the canals in Venice

The FT has some very good graphs comparing progress of the disease in different countries an regions: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

Good article here: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486