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This is great visualization: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

‪Second podcast about COVID19 by Peter Attia (released March 15): https://peterattiamd.com/covid-19-update-03152020/‬

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They put Jared in charge? Has corruption and nepotism no limit? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/infighting-missteps-and-a-son-in-law-hungry-for-action-inside-the-trump-administrations-troubled-coronavirus-response/2020/03/14/530c28b4-6559-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html

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Dr. Peter Attia just released a special episode on COVID-19: https://peterattiamd.com/peterhotez/ Probably a must-listen. Update: ‪Second podcast about COVID19 by Peter Attia (released March 15): https://peterattiamd.com/covid-19-update-03152020/‬

Dr. Peter Attia just released a special episode on COVID-19: https://peterattiamd.com/peterhotez/ Probably a must-listen.

Yes, tests are being rationed due to shortage. Pence’s 1M tests is over a week late now and we are nowhere close. This increases the probability that we may end up like Italy and be rationing ICU beds and vents eventually as well... :-\ Meanwhile:

The testing situation in the richest country in the world with months of advance warning is a disgrace

He’s insane

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/13/despite-trumps-claims-google-isnt-building-the-coronavirus-screening-site-and-its-not-ready/

Good interview with biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, mostly about research into the diseases of aging, a little about AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-z0kglwpwo

You should be more tolerant and accepting. Your evolutionary instinct of disliking those things is neither more "right" or "wrong" than those folks who like those things. The folks have just as much insight into the right way to live as anyone else does. Why force (by "calling it out") your arbitrary values on others? I don't believe any of those things. I don't know why you're parodying moral relativism at me.

https://apnews.com/921ad7f1f08d7634bf681ba785faf269?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

You're trolling me now? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just dislike ageism/sexism/racism and try to call it out when I see it.

So what you wrote was callous, but you had good reasons. Ok. Personally I prefer neutral terms when talking about the death and illness of people. I still think the point I made generally applies. There's way too much casual and accepted discrimination against whole groups of people based solely on their age, which is just as out-of-their-control as their gender or color of their skin or sexual orientation or whatever.

I hope someday what happened to racism and sexism happens to ageism. People are people, with inherent worth and dignity, they are not worth less because their bodies are sick and frail and they have had many birthdays. Now I know you said "economically", but the tone still got to me. Maybe you didn't mean it to come across this callous with the lives of people who often already have tough lives. No, I had intended to use a clinical tone to deal with that age cohort. I have several family and friends who are in that cohort and I fully expect to lose more than a few from Covid. When that happens, it will be sad for me and those around me. But, when dealing with the aggregate question, you need to remain distant, clinical, and ideally, objective. SJ My bad, I didn't realize that "clean out" and "croak" were clinical terms.

Paper that looks at potential seasonality: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3550308 PDF here Also, what a competent response can do:

I hope someday what happened to racism and sexism happens to ageism. People are people, with inherent worth and dignity, they are not worth less because their bodies are sick and frail and they have had many birthdays. Now I know you said "economically", but the tone still got to me. Maybe you didn't mean it to come across this callous with the lives of people who often already have tough lives.

What's scary is that even if you don't die, it sounds like complications from lung fibrosis can have long-lasting/permanent deleterious effects in at-risk populations like the elderly.