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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

That is just what progressivism today is.

My understanding of the definition of a hard Brexit was that it was a No Deal Brexit (Pretty sure that is how it was used last fall). Since we were both responding to Greatbuzz I'd be interested in what he was actually asking.

Actually it is right. The question was it a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit. A hard Brexit would have meant immediate border controls (including in Ulster/Ireland), excise taxes etc being implemented and none of that is happening at the end of the month.

I'm more concerned with banner headlines for everyone that is getting tested, or social media posts/tweets that say 2% death rate of hospitalized patients???? - OMG that means 6 million will die, stock market jitters -etc. etc.

It's soft. Parliament approved the deal.

It's not the CDC that is over reacting - it is much of the media, social media and you, that are.

Seems like we are overreacting as usual. The reported mortality rate (so far) is less than half of that of the flu.

My money is we'll go the same way as the dinosaurs (evolution). Yeah, I'm pretty sure they do know who it spreads (It is a type of corona virus and they have long known how they spread). They just don't know when in spreads (ie the period it begins to be contagious once contracted).

So far about 2% of reported cases. Don't conflate this with infection rates though, which a lot of people sensationalizing this are already doing ( the OMG 2% of US population = 6 million dead!!!! reports/tweets/posts).