> The key question: how much money (or resources) should you, or we, be willing to pay to gain more life?
This whole article is based on a false premise. We can spend x dollars to stop this virus from getting to poor old grandma. We cannot stop this virus. Any vaccine will not help significantly either as it has mutated many times and will continue to do so. The shutdown and stay at home were only measures to slow infection rates, buying time to prepare hospital beds, tests, masks ETC.
This virus will continue to spread until 80% of the population has had it (herd immunity). The financial cost has been paid, we are re-opening and will not close again unless we overwhelm the measures that we have put in place. The second wave of the 1969 pandemic virus is still with us folks (it's one of the seasonal flu varieties). This one isn't going away save a miracle.
Pandemics are nothing new. We get through them and move on (sounds harsh but is the reality). We are a communal people. It isn't possible to "burn out" this particular virus. This article seems to think we somehow can buy our way out of it.
Sorry... Trying to understand. Are you saying that all these little kids died of aids? How did they contract it? Most kids are 3 feet tall by age three or four. Also, why so many deaths in 2002? Very effective drugs had been widely available for a long time.
Yet moderate smokers of 40+ years have no higher risk than non smokers... Strange (just ask my 96yo grandmother who smoked for 42yrs and is still sharp as a pin mentally)
There are a lot of other bad things that the people in Mexico city are exposed to. Why blame Alzheimer's on air pollution???
Oh, wait... thought Herpes got in the brain and caused it...
Scientists don't have a clue what really causes it (yet they have many clues). Probably 1,000 different things which affect 1,000 different people , well differently.
Sorry for pessimism, but I have been disappointment with nearly every other graphene miracle product so far. Waiting for this one to not pan out as well. Why doesn't Popular Science just do full graphene publications since I am always equally disappointment by how many amazing things in there never pan out.
Just look back through the years where the WHO has posted information and data that has been false. There were scientists and doctors who disagreed, those doctors were correct. So YouTube wouldn't allow correct information in this scenario for Covid 19?
Why do I always see articles like this? I am pretty sure that everyone knows that Amish eat healthier, exercise more (very low obesity - the cause of 60% of Western health problems), don't drink or smoke, ingest and inhale far less plastics and chemicals and a large portion of their health care money isn't wasted on health care system overhead (administration). Oh one more thing, 80% of doctor visits and filled prescriptions today are completely unnecessary and unhelpful, also 20% of surgeries. The Amish only use health care or get surgeries or see a doctor when they really need too. Cut out the cost for that too.
It's funny how today's most complex problems are so simply avoided by simple people.
Wrong, reasoning like yours has caused so much pervasiveness of poverty and other problems. You probably reason that abortion and birth control could help the US black population also. Unintended consequences of thinking like yours has done so much harm to society (especially by politicians/government) and could sadly have easily been avoided by simply seeking solutions from truly creative problem solvers with analytical minds.
Oh great, another study. Thinking for 2 minutes... The same applies to non-refugee people living in poverty. This study shows absolutely nothing new (not already known). And does not state a few things that would make it appear foolish.
1. The impoverished are usually the ones who end up as refugees in the first place.
2. Poverty is highly generational.
3. The impoverished are generally lower IQ/cognitive/resourceful/creative/motivated/entrepreneurial (genetically pre-dispositioning wise)
4. Impoverished aren't exposed to the things that successful people were as children. Not just educational and culturally, but also habitually. Learning good skills and habits such as being organized, working smarter, not harder, finding solutions to propel ones self upward economically ETC. People pass these things down to their children.
5. Other naturally born "privileges" such as being taller, stronger, more attractive are genetic and contribute to being impoverished, leading to being a refugee.
Everyone involved would have been better off if Starbucks just started a charity to help homeless people. Political correctness and feelings (vs logic and foresight) just cause more problems.
It will also be useful for those wanting to avoid LGBT+ people and acceptance. I realize this isn't the intent, but it will be divisive (cause division).
College aged women trusted porn producers? Wow, talk about lack of street smarts. Among people working different professions, how highly would you trust a porn company? These women made pornos. They had sex with a total stranger while a crew stood around and watched while filming them them, I mean just think about that. They actually thought, "oh well, only one person will ever see it"? This whole thing is a sad story, but wow, i just can't imagine American born and raised girls going along with this...
The track record of the government saving people and fixing things is absolutely abysmal. It is literally insane (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result). Why has the black poverty level been the same for 60 years? Do you know how many laws and programs the government has created to save them? The government doesn't do anything very well. There are always so many unintended consequences that need more laws and programs till there is so much red tape and taxes needed to pay for all the bureaucracy and programs. Government officials campaign on promises of half baked ideas. Then when they get elected, they do their job, making more and more laws and programs. Progressives are even realizing now that the government has created a welfare generation and are pushing to end it in favor of guaranteed basic income. Look at the insane amounts of money sunk into inner-city schools and do things ever improve? No.
The government is a failure for social programs and fixing problems citizens face. This is easily proven though statistics. How do we keep on going down this path? I'll never understand big government people...
That is why contract positions have a far higher payout. I know many contractors who come out on top this way. Many have a spouse with a job that provides Insurance for the family. They pocket that extra. Others just enjoy the autonomy of the hours they work ETC. If restaurants are exploiting workers by calling them contractors, why do the workers stand for it? Go work somewhere else. Why does that restaurant have cooks on staff if they are indeed mistreating them? Are people so weak in this generation that they can't make things happen themselves and need the government to save them?
"Strong men create easy times, easy times produce weak men, weak men cause hard times, hard times produce strong men."