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Well, you don't have any source citations and a search doesn't reveal anything. Having said that, you'd be surprised at the number of people who see dollars during a disaster. I've had my share of newly formed ice & water distributors. Believe it or not - both need to be certified thru the GSA Process. In this case, someone pops up a newly formed N95 mask company - how are the masks certified? There is a process. When 3M & Honeywell can't ramp up fast enough to snap their fingers and produce 300 Million masks - you can be a newly formed distributor of anything, but if there's nothing to distribute . . . Just one of the many "newly formed" that will be dissolved as soon as this slows down.

"I know a lot more about it than I did a few days ago." Which means that you don't know shit from a good grade of peanut butter about it today. When Mr. Fugate says: We may disagree on a lot of things on here, but not this. I have stood on the front lines of some of our nations largest disasters with Charles Hagan III & Mr. Craig Fugate. Mr. Fugate is one of the most apolitical people you could ever meet - whose sole interest is the job of disaster response. There are no men that everyone in disaster response respect more the Craig and Chuck. Craig & Chuck have worked for and with both sides of the political aisle.

Hoping for the best.

Brother, I simply don't get it. And those who watch it; I question, "How do you send them money knowing they use it for themselves and have a net worth > 500 Million Dollars?" Ohh, well you must not understand the "Prosperity Doctrine." And, they believe that too. On that note, it's time for all you sky-believers to send me 5 jump tickets and you'll get that tenfold back over the next year.

Mine will be a quaranteen.

I'm sure you thought this was relevant.

I respect him a LOT more than Rush Limbaugh - and he got the Presidential Medal of Mouthpiece. We can disagree, but he's come a long way from being a crack baby. He got a pat on the back.

I give him lots of credit - he re-tooled his American-Made factory and immediately started making 10,000 CDC Approved masks per day and by Friday; he expects to be making 50,000 masks a day.

All true, Brother. I was thinking more along the lines of if I can get emails on my phone; then hand the phone to the kid and let them click on the hyperlink and let them do their school work. Really rural - very true. Parts of Oklahoma are like West -by God- Virginia. But even then, if there's no infrastructure from an ISP and they have a cell tower - then hot spot. (Course, that sentence right there prolly would blow some country folks away. : )

I think it was directed more to the Professor's comment that yours. I wonder how much tongue-lashing I would have gotten for posting a graph that said, 'This "estimate" is based on a "rule of thumb" that . . .'

The schools near me have decided to give out the chromebooks they use in class until they can bridge the internet gap more thoroughly. Organizations are stepping up to help and it'll take some time in the new normal to get all kids online learning, but things are heading that direction. I'm constantly getting emails from the school asking me what resources I need for internet access. Kinda cracks me up - if you can get an email - doesn't your child have access to the Internet?

Sorry.

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Wait til education figures out that the Taj Mahal School buildings and that as many teachers, superintendents and administrators become less necessary. We've been using Khan Academy (for years) until the school releases their "approved curriculum." We'll see how that works. IMO Khan Academy is great. My kid can whip your kid at math. In the meantime, I kinda like to be the Dad and make her laugh, "Baby Girl, let's tell Alexa to fart."

Phil, back to the topic at hand and one of our previous discussions: "Epidemiologist, Didier Raoult, just posted online, this study offers more hope that the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin is helping COVID-19 patients. Now, this was a study of 80 patients, more than double the size Professor Oz's (ph) earlier study had, but it's still not controlled. Nevertheless, 54 of the patients had CT scans for COVID pneumonia. Only three of them required an ICU, and the median age was 52, that's fairly young. About two- thirds or so had underlying medical conditions, and the results were stunning. This is what it said, in part. "By administrating hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin, we were able to observe an improvement in all cases, except in one patient who arrived with an advanced form, who was over the age of 86 and in whom the evolution was irreversible. For all other patients in this cohort of 80 people, the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin resulted in a clinical improvement that appeared significant when compared to the natural evolution in patients with a definite outcome, as described in the literature." EDIT: This is the actual study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7064018/

about a nanosecond.

Closet conservative? <smiley face>

Well, there's always that also.

Well, that's a lot shorter than most would give me.

I don't blame the first man to climb up under a cow and suck on a teet. He was hungry. I blame the second man who believed the first man when he said it was a good idea to try it. Then, Stupid v.3-1000 sends their kids to the same school as Stupid v.2 to drink the milk.

You probably don't have an American Lung Association in Britain, do ya?

Matthew 11:20 Sure there is: Meet Stupid v.1 Stupid v.1 has a child. We'll call him Stupid v.2

Stopped which? Badump bump teeeash

Holy shit. Stop reading what the alarmists are reporting and read the thingie you posted. . It's a simple matter of social-distancing their employees and with the need to pull back - compliance becomes an internal recording mechanism with non-compliance having to be explained and you can bet that the fines will be more than the value of compliance relaxation. PS Just a reminder - I am so far left of the liberals when it comes to the environment that I've been chastised by the Professor for believing that wind turbines are a form of pollution.

That is more to my point than yours 99% of pot smokers started out as cigarette smokers.