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Harriet. Biographical piece on Harriet Tubman. Give it a solid A.

From what I've read and been briefed COVID-19 becoming endemic is the bigger worry than the overall death rate. It is likely when all is said and done the death rate probably will be closer to the regular seasonal flu than the 1918 flu pandemic, but like you said if it becomes endemic you get that repeated every year. So you are going to get away from fall weather to just go to a town with fall weather year round? One of my favorite cities BTW.

Just got through a bad week of having something. (Caught it from the Mrs who had it the week prior). Day 1 - scratchy throat, chest tickle and congestion in upper sinus; Day 2 - A total flood of snot - initially thought a Noahs Ark might be needed to save life on Earth; Day 3 suddenly dries up - must be on the mend; Day 4 - Boy was I wrong - coughing fits galore - very dry coughing and wheezing leads to headaches; Day 5 (Today)- much better some residual coughing seem to be on the mend; Day 6 ? Thing is I never had a fever and of course all the early snot eliminates Covid 19. So just my worst cold ever maybe?

This new Covid 19 is not really dangerous to kids. The grand total of children under 10 that have died from it (many have had it including a new born) is 0. 2d check the symptoms of what ever you have. I've been sick all this week with all the symptoms plus 1. Wasn't worried that I have it because I have had an extremely runny nose. Covid 19 cases seem to be very telling in that they don't have runny noses.

Well, to be honest I kinda stepped into the deep end with my post above. Completely out of my depth. Thanks for the response.

I wonder if Coronaviruses could be susceptible to asymmetric competitive suppression. If so if you already have a corona virus (ie a cold) this new one may not be able to infect you until you get rid of the old one. Of course protection would be of very limited duration. https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2180-8-28 ......However, in the vaccinia system, when one strain infects four hours after the other (superinfection), replication of the second strain is suppressed, and with a ten-hour lag time between infections, the second strain is unable to replicate at all (superinfection exclusion).....

I think it needs repeating that for those under 50 the risk (if caught) is less than if one caught the flu. And for those 51-60 it is about the same as the flu. It's just after 60 that things start to get worse than the flu (and substantially worse for those over 80 - almost 22% of confirmed cases). And oh yeah for you parents with young ones - to date kids are almost totally immune to this Corona Virus.

Something that also needs to be considered is that 2/3d of the critical cases/deaths in China are men and 1/3 Women. 50% of men smoke in China while only 3% of women do. So I'd make the assumption that smokers are significantly more vulnerable to this virus and since we have fewer smokers our death rate will likely be lower.

Have binged the Expanse over the last month (not total binge obviously). Excellent science fiction that tries to be a bit realistic on the environmental effects of living, working, travelling and fighting in space ( a bit - my pet peeve is that Earthers should be able to throw Belters around like rag dolls in the few hand to hand fights that occur in the show).

Understood was just pointing out that methane wasn't a byproduct of gas production.

Natural gas is methane. That said yes problems of deliberate release as a by product of oil production and leaks of gas pipelines occur. Deliberate release was and remains the biggest problem but that problem has been getting smaller as demand for natural gas has increased and provided incentive to harvest the gas instead of wasting it.

FYI. Even if it spreads widely in the US it probably wouldn't be a good idea to do that. For children the flu is probably more dangerous to catch. COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE: AGE DEATH RATE 80+ years old 14.8% 70-79 years old 8.0% 60-69 years old 3.6% 50-59 years old 1.3% 40-49 years old 0.4% 30-39 years old 0.2% 20-29 years old 0.2% 10-19 years old 0.2% 0-9 years old no fatalities

Thanks usually I catch those type of jokes but lately a combination of my deteriorating mental faculties (ie getting older) and people seriously proposing insane crap has knocked me off my stride.

Unfortunately it looks like yesterdays dip didn't hold or was probably under reported - big Spike tonight that more than made up for the decline yesterday. They jumbled 2 days worth of data together with 252 deaths (on top of the 97 yesterday?).

OK yeah that is the way it has been. Of course active participation is very broad and if it comes to a commanders attention it would have to be active imo.

I couldn't open it. But that would be a major departure from established military policy. Who were the officials who said this? Edit. I found it yeah active participation will get you booted. Frankly way I see it the only way it comes to the attention of the commander is if you are active.

Well some good news the number of deaths on 11 February declined about 10% when they had been consistently increasing by about 10-13% each day prior to that. Yes, just one day but it bucked the trend.

What happens with the other 9%?

Related strain or same? Same would be bad given the SARS mortality rate.

Or a player that is big at one position (Safety) and small for the other(LB).

These statistics give a little more info - certainly not enough to definitively paint a picture. Using the assumption the suspected cases are actual cases it looks like about 5% become severe of which 15% die (a .007% death rate over all)? So a death rate twice that of the flu for severe cases but less than half as many severe cases than the flu? This could be way off if the assumptions are wrong.

Flu death rate is 7% of severe cases (Hospitalized). Deaths from this new virus are 2% of confirmed/hospitalized cases . Reports are large percentages who contract this virus don't get severe symptoms - so I assume like the flu most that actually catch this virus don't end up in the hospital. (The bad thing about this is it is probably much more wide spread).

Whats happening are soldiers looking after themselves (most likely encouraged by their the local command/leader looking out for their soldiers). It is best practice to get any injury and even potential injuries on record just in case down the road something crops up.

Arab Leaders’ Support for Mideast Peace Plan Marks a Regional Shift Tentative backing of U.S. proposal reflects changing priorities, frustration with the Palestinians and more willingness to work with Israel https://www.wsj.com/articles/arab-leaders-support-for-mideast-peace-plan-marks-a-regional-shift-11580325868 Trump's Middle East peace plan: key points at a glance. President’s vision emphasises Israel’s security rather than Palestinian self-determination https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-key-points-at-a-glance