About 90% of the general population have "other" illnesses.
Point being is it is much of the danger can be attributed to being in poorer health to start with. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER PATHOGEN.
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If this isn't expanded to include Sonoma, Napa, and Solano it might as well not even take place, as it will continue to spread and as soon as the order is lifted everyone will be infected again. Really should be the whole state with no border crossing except for necessary cargo. The more seriously it is taken the quicker things can resume as normal.
Mass stupidity. There is no epidemic in the area. Don't care what you say, there is a problem in Italy, and other places but not here. It simply isn't here on a scale that requires stopping everything. It is pure fear. What has happened is that fear itself has gone viral. It is only the fear that is worth fearing.
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If nothing is done, the least privileged will suffer the most due lack of access to health services and a financial safety net.
But what is most assuredly going to happen is what benefits rich people. The rest is collateral damage or pure luck. Is what it is, nothing new under the sun.
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Probably means 4M assuming that no containment measures are taken.
Like someone said on twitter, “In the end, it will be impossible to know if we overreacted or did too much, but it will be QUITE apparent if we under reacted or did too little.”
Right, the rich have nothing to lose, the poorer capitalists pay for the over reaction. That's why we see an over reacting, panicking society, because
the rich benefit from it. It is the only reason they do anything, I hate to break it to you.
Typically not in my experience. Smart technical folks are subjected to plenty of suffering at the hands of leadership. The ones "smart enough to know better" find a way to insulate their livelihoods from capricious decision makers by either learning how to play the game or finding a way not to play (consulting or maybe creating their own product).
And I don't think it's accurate either to say that only fools love power. The need for power and status is deeply rooted in our evolution and psyche. To go back to Aristotle, man is the political animal.
Very accurate to say the love of power makes a fool. A fool is just closer to an animal than a "wise" man. Power over another is just selfish, as love, or the care of more than yourself is altruistic. By smart enough to know better I meant they aren't the ones perpetuating the games, not that they are not suffering from the games. You flipped it backwards.
This is so true and sad. Often the smartest people at a company are literally just being moved about by the business people. They literally can't see the real game above them.
That's because they are smart enough to know better. It is dumb people who play games with the lives of others, it is the fool who loves power.
Smart, nerdy people tend to spend a lot of time alone with books/computers/hobbies, so they simply do not spend enough time with other people to properly develop their social skills.
That is completely off track.
People who succeed at politics are able to do so because they can see through the bullshit, but also because they can pretend it’s not bullshit. Politics is war without the violence. You need you be able to signal to potential allies what you’re willing to give and take with plausible deniability.
Many smart, principled people aren’t able to sufficiently lie to themselves or feel comfortable using ambiguous terms and/or outright lying, and that hampers their ability to covertly send and receive signals to others, so others who are successful at politics would do well to stay away from them. You have to compromise in order to get things done, but it doesn’t behoove you to lay out all of your cards for everyone to see.
The Elephant in the room. When it's all politics, as it is in most of modern society, success really has much more to do with the ability to lie and deceive than most are comfortable admitting. There in lies the entire problem, and the solution is inchomphesible to polititions who owe their entire self worth to their abilities to decieve.
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Or put another way, we want relationships with our users. There's lots of ways that could play out, including money, but it's not surprising at all that a business wants to know who its customers and potential customers are. Next.
You want money. Next.