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WW3 is a potential outcome of any economic pressure, but highly unlikely.

Economic pressure on Russia and Saudi is just fine. This is why the US is becoming oil independent and will pave the way for eventual transition to cleaner fuels & tech. It's a win-win IMO.

This is potentially big news: An estimated 320,000 adults in Los Angeles County may have been infected with coronavirus (vs ~8,000 testing positive), according to preliminary results of a study that suggests the illness is far more widespread than current testing shows and the death rate is much lower. The study conducted April 10-11 by the county and the University of Southern California estimated that approximately 4.1% of the county’s adult population of 8 million has antibodies to the virus. When adjusted for margin of error, the infection rate ranged from 2.8% to 5.6%, or about 220,000 to 440,000 adults. The study follows other research that has suggested more people have had coronavirus without symptoms — or without feeling ill enough to seek a test. https://news.usc.edu/168987/antibody-testing-results-covid-19-infections-los-angeles-county/ If this is the case, the mortality rate is much lower.

Agreed, but I think it should be here permanently. Anything higher is just padding Exec wallets.

Good. This is the 'reset' that industry needs since the prices went up quite permanently from the 1990s levels, especially after the 2008 and 2011 spikes. Gas should be in the $1.50/gal range, IMO.

That and military use - that one freaks me out.

Unfortunately I was only half-kidding. We are moving into a very ethically-challenging time when it comes to the genetic altering CRISPR allows.

The 'shortage' of post-COVID antibody testing is because it's brand spanking new. Only some smaller countries like UK and Germany are starting to ramp this up. It takes time.

With the advent of CRISPR, I believe we're going to see some significant advances in vaccine tech and manufacturing in the next 5-10 years like we haven't seen before. Granted, this will also increase the risk of creating an zombie vaccine that could end the world.

The flu vaccine prevents millions of illnesses and flu-related doctor’s visits each year. For example, during 2017-2018, flu vaccination prevented an estimated 6.2 million influenza illnesses, 3.2 million influenza-associated medical visits, 91,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations, and 5,700 influenza-associated deaths. I get what you're saying, but I don't see how they can verify how many people didn't get the Flu because of the vaccine. 6.2M prevented? How would they know? The only hard data they have to go on is 'averts', not prevents. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/burden-averted.htm

The Flu vaccine doesn't prevent one from getting the flu, it's meant to minimize the symptoms and help you recover more quickly.

They are working on it, but not at a break-neck speeds, but here are some of the reasons why there isn't one yet: 200+ strains of the common 'cold' - complex Relatively mild - not a huge need for one (although it would be great, IMO) They are developing a vaccine for RSV - which is the most severe 'cold' virus.

Ok, but doesn't really change anything.

He's your President too, just clarifying.

Just think about how much the press would rip Pres Trump if this were the case. Calling him anti-science and a hypocrite.

Totally agree. We're down in Hilton Head and the mostly private beaches here have been busy the whole time. Only 25 cases here with a population of 40k.

I in no way encourage violence...whether or not these Tweets encourage that, I guess we'll find out, although I'm pretty sure he's not calling people to kill people - as much as I'm pretty sure Pres Obama wasn't calling on people to kill police. If I were Pres Trump, I would've worded it differently. Something like: "Liberate Virginia, and save your great 2nd amendment, vote the Democrats out!"

Did I say that? Not at all. I just showed that what you and other Pres Trump dis-likers state as crazy or WTF or whatever, other Presidents have done. Just offering perspective. For some reason, Pres Trump-dislikers seems to think he's the only one that has done/said things they don't like, yet it's somehow 'acceptable' if their party's elect do the same. Was likely the same scenario when Pres Obama was in office.

This really isn't much different than when Pres Obama encouraged and supported the BLM protests after Treyvon Martin: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-defends-black-lives-matter-protests-police-m https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-defends-black-lives-matter-movement-as-protests-heat-up/ Also, his comments about Treyvon didn't help either...basically started the BLM movement and violence against police tended to increase after this.

Not to make this political, but from 2008-2016 there was a pretty strong separation trend of each wealth category. I don't see how the Pres Obama helped African Americans during his tenure (although the slope of the 90% decreased from 2010-13, then increased a little from 2013-16). Also wondering what that huge drop in the 1% was from 1996-2001 - maybe it was Y2K and silicon valley crash? Enron?

Here's my take on what really happened: China has been trying to become a leader in virology (along with viral weaponizing) and have multiple research labs around the country testing all sorts of germs. Unfortunately, they don't have the proper safety protocols in these labs and someone contracted COVID-19 (patient zero) and started shedding it before symptoms were present. As it spread, the Chinese government was made aware and attempted to contain it quickly, however, there were local doctors who were aware and knew what was happening. They tried to convey, but were quickly silenced - as it would be a VERY bad look to the rest of the world (that China was out-of-control with this thing). So, they decided to continue trying to contain, but soon realized there was no stopping it, within China. At that point, they knew it was going to disrupt their economy, and I believe THAT was the time the Chinese leadership decided to let thing virus out (by stalling) so that the rest of the world's economies would be at parity dealing with it. To them, it's worth the 200k+ lives lost in other countries, to save their own economy in order to reach their Made in China 2025 plan.

While its people were on the streets, probably. They are definitely lying. If not, I hate to think what they really did.

They sure did. I can totally understand the decision to halt funding pending an investigation.

I'm very curious about this as well. My whole family got RSV in January...then a few weeks later (late-Feb), the kids got 102ish fevers for about 2 days. I got a something at the same time and my wife really struggled with something for about a week. In retrospect, we'd like to get tested for antibodies...just to see. We are Type B and O as well, which is supposedly less susceptible and with less severe symptoms.

Someone needs to edit that body slam with a picture of COVID-19.