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Which is why we should be preventing infections ...
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What was the death rate among the natives when white man arrived in The New World?
Among whites, e.g. measels was an everyday matter. When we were kids, we visited friends and schoolmates having caught measels, hoping to be infected so that we would build up a lifelong immunity against further attacks. Nowadays, measels are viewed as something close to the Black Death, in some populations that never had any resistance or immunity.
At least in principle, corona may in a similar way hit some population groups harder than others. If it hits certain groups really bad, who would then collect your garbage? Who would then clean the toilets at your workplace? Who would sweep the streets? Who would pick the fruit when they start to ripen?
Or, what if other groups are hit much worse than the Chinese: If White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants, aryans, sees a death toll ten times as high as that of the Asians (maybe even higher among well-fed, somewhat alcoholized 40+ males), could that have significant impact on the international economic, or other, order?
It doesn't have to be the current corona virus. It could be the next virus infection, or the one after that. In any case, we should not forget how differently New World populations reacted to Western virus infections, compared to "us" (granted, I am aware that a fair number of readers of this do not belong in the "us" group in the sense "of old world descent - I trust you to get may point, nevertheless). There is no guarantee that "we", the aryans, will be those who can handle the next wave of virus infections. We are certainly not the ones who are best protected against the spread.
Many Western societies are of very mixed population - at one count, the company I work for had employees of 37 nationalities (that includes the sales force all over the world). Could we entirely loose any of them, without the company taking a severe blow? Certainly not the guys from India! Or the Russians! Or the Poles! Or the Chinese! And the Finns! We have surprisingly few co-workers from our nearest neighbours, like Sweden, Denmark, Germany and England, but a loss of them would nevertheless be very dramatic. As a Norwegian company, the majority of the leadership (as well as the old core of professonal experts) is Norwegian. If we had a major hit against all of traditional Norwegaian descent, that would be the end of our activities. I cannot imagine that non-Norwegian survivors would be able to fill all the positions required to continue operation.
I don't think the world has seen its last Black Death-level pandemic. I am far from certain that Western aryans will be those who are most resistant to it when it comes. And then I am far from certain that Western aryans will be as dominating as they are today, after the world recovers from the pandemic.
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I'm sure there are much worse things much closer to you.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Hey!
I get to talk about my wife like that, but no-one else does! 
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It's about 100km for me, again; had 1 recovery there a week ago and a fresh one yesterday.
In regards to mortality in the US, if you subtract out Washington State we were at 0.5%
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That was fun - a link to a different language, one that Google can't translate. I assume that it's about the COVID-19 virus, since that's all the news these days. To put things into perspective, the US has had about 10 - 20 deaths this year from this virus, but year to date, we've had 18,000 deaths from the flu. Certainly, any new virus is a matter of concern, but this one isn't a huge threat. I don't get why the Liberal media is openly attempting to create hysteria. It seems to me that a more useful message would be, "Get your flu shot!."
Will Rogers never met me.
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Google can't translate Dutch?
Are you sure you haven't been hijacked by Hoogle or Floogle?
Roger Wright wrote: I don't get why the Liberal media is openly attempting to create hysteria.
Jesus wept.
Been to many MAGA rallies?
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I checked the numbers on the CDC homepage.
Today it says that 20000 people have died from flu this season.
350000 people have been hospitalized and 34 million have been sick with the flu.
That gives that a little bit more than 10% of the US population had the flu, and of those have less than 0.1% died from it.
The mortality rate of covid-19 is more than 1%. In Italy it is five percent at the moment.
But that isn't the worst part. Covid is much more contagious (Ro of 2.3 instead of 1.3). So unchecked you can count on many more people getting sick than from the flu.
And that with 5-10% of the sick people ending up in ICU.
Have you checked recently how many ICU-places there are where you live?
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Jacquers wrote: Come one Bob, Play along
A moustache would do, but dungarees and the hat would be perfection!
If only we had the icon-making talent of microsoft.
Edit: 15 minutes will have to do[^].
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modified 10-Mar-20 9:21am.
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[RANT]
Aaarrrghhhh,
My kids go to school, they have classmates, classmates have parents and those parents organize things like joint parties, driving to an event, presents for the teacher, …
So one parent takes initiative and sends a mail to everyone to organize something. Great, very nice, no problem there. But then it seems that every single parent of every single classmate feels the need to press "reply all" to send "thank you", "how nice is this", "you're amazing" type of messages .
As if I give a f... damn!!
and of course, somehow the wrong email address is used, so you ask kindly to change it to something else, no, just press "reply all" again with some other useless message.
Stupid parents ! 
(had to get that of my chest, thank you for reading  )
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V. wrote: those parents organize things like joint parties
Are the joints for the kids or the parents? Either way, I didn't think that sort of thing was legal outside of Amsterdam. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Both, with any luck.
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Solution: allow your kids to grow up in ignorance with no peer-to-peer social skills, and home school them. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: with no peer-to-peer social skills
(every INTJ, introverted, frustrated-with-humanity software developer looks around at every other INTJ, introverted, frustrated-with-humanity software developer with a "you say that like it's a bad thing" look.)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You can add INTPs to that. 
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Sounds awful, why did you ever hand your email over for something like that??
If there is a need for all parents to be able to talk to each other then why not just create a group on a social platform (e.g. Facebook) and post in there. Then people can respond/ignore as desired.
In fact, why has somebody not already created a "parent social platform" already? It's seems like an obvious thing.
Email is NOT suitable for multi-person conversations.
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musefan wrote: Email is NOT suitable for multi-person conversations.
Of course it is! That's why it has a "Reply all" feature!
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I am sure we all know the pain of fudging on extra features to try convince everyone the system does more than it was ever designed to do. 
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isn't social media just email with Reply All the only option?
was [very briefly] in a cycling group...
... lot's of:
- look at what I had for lunch today!!
- my neighbour had a baby!
- my cat is very fat, and shat on the mat!!!
social media free for 5 years now... not a single relapse.
still waiting for the sobriety chips to prove it, anyone know where to get them?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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With email it is too easy to lose content. If somebody replies to a "old" email then it splits the email chain and your suddenly following 2..4..8.. different conversations. Sure it's fine for a brief discussion if people only reply when they need to ("Thanks" is not one of those reasons).
With social media (depending on the platform) everyone sees the full SINGLE chain. You don't have to remember who/when a specific thing was said. Plus you often get extra features, like creating events. It's always easy to find the event details, just go to the event. You don't have to scroll a massive chain to find the date of the event in one email and the "new changed time and location" in another one.
Alan: "Party on Monday at 7PM at Bob's house"
10 people: "Cool. Great. I'll be there' [silly picture showing party excitement]"
Bob: "Change of plan. I won't be home for 7, new time is 8PM"
10 people: "Cool. Great. I'll be there' [silly picture showing party excitement]"
Chris: "Bob has lost his house. I am going to host the party at my place [insert new location]. Same time as mentioned before".
Me: "So... Tuesday at 5PM at Dave's house, or nah?"
I am not trying to promote social media, just trying to point out that they have a lot better functionality for this kind of thing than email does.
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lopatir wrote: social media free for 5 years now... not a single relapse.
still waiting for the sobriety chips to prove it
Sanity is reward enough.
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lopatir wrote: still waiting for the sobriety chips to prove it, anyone know where to get them?
Have you tried asking on FaceBook?
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This is a solution that will address the problem and likely reduce your email.
1) Click that REPLY ALL yourself
2) Tell everyone it's very rude and thoughtless to click REPLY ALL with their mindless small talk when only the original sender need be informed.
This should cut down on the REPLY ALL - possibly even omit the basic starting email for future mailings of this type (win/win => won). Other options are to teach them the glories of BCC:, but somehow I think this mob of FauxBook spawn really really want to REPLY ALL because they might get loved back!
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