We lived on the line of Leech Lake Reservation (near Cass Lake, MN) but except for that and the Crow Reservation, the rest of our reservation experiences were in the southwest.
(IHS hospital/clinics)
Yes, they're all different; laws, customs, landscape, tribal government, etc; more than most people might imagine.
Some tribes (Navajo Nation included) are still receiving direct health care. There's a huge hospital in Gallup, NM, as well as another in Shiprock. Health care is supplied by the federal Indian Health Services (of HHS). In no way should this be construed as "far below" most US Standards.
Other tribes have opted out of direct health care preferring to receive Title 638 funds to administer for their health care. These tribes' health care naturally varies with the way the individual tribes administer their programs.
The Navajo Nation is larger than the state of West Virginia, so the analogy of town-level government wouldn't seem to apply.
Having lived on reservations, Navajo Nation being one of them, I'd opine that the co-morbidities are the main contributing factor. The diabetes rates on the rez are many times that of the US population as are the rates of alcoholism.
Also households are very often multi-generational and more crowded than in the US.
Yes, they do have their own lockdown policies. On a drive in western NC this past month, we had to turn around as the Qualla Boundary was blocked by tribal police.
In the US, the right to travel is one of the most basic. The right to work comes along somewhere close to that. I couldn't have imagined Americans would ever stand for such a thing, but current attitudes seem poised to easily fall over to that.
Basically, it's a "license" for freedom. What a convoluted and contradictory concept. Given the past, and Germany's "Never Again" sentiment, I'm surprised this can even be considered.
It's not the rate that matters. It's the actual number of deaths.
SO FAR, this flu season, the CDC attributes 20,000 to 52,000 deaths to the flu in the US alone. Coronavirus has killed a tenth of that worldwide. So, no. Coronavirus is NOT anywhere near as bad as the regular flu.
CEB has been used for centuries in Britain. Arid is obviously not a factor. It's also been used for multi-story buildings. I'm not sure how dense housing reduces pollution though. Some of the least polluting housing in the world is rural, e.g. the Amish.
edit: I should have said "earthen" construction has been used in Britain. Cob rather than CEB.
Greenhouse operators often provide their plants with an atmosphere of 1200-1500 ppm CO2, which would fall into the
economically advantageous range. No idea where the "too much" range starts though.
I remember the mumps as being fairly painful. I recall the chicken pox as being extremely itchy. What do I recall about measles? Not much at all really except that they forced me to stay home from school.
The alarmism surrounding the measles is exactly the kind of misinformation that should be avoided, yet all I see are articles from authors that keep talking about the number of cases of measles as if the number itself is some kind of horror. Please people. Childhood diseases were always just a normal part of growing up. Don't run around like chicken pox with your heads cut off hysterically calling .00003% of the population a "pandemic."
If I move my forecast location a few hundred yards, my
elevation changes rather drastically, changing the forecast.
Elevation isn't a factor most forecasts even consider. Is
it false precision to use elevation to tailor the forecast?
"chance of precipitation is 80%, less than an inch possible"
How would you determine, in a scientifically rigid manner,
the limits on conditions which would validate that forecast
as "right?" Or the inverse. What conditions would
invalidate it as "not right?"
Yes, they're all different; laws, customs, landscape, tribal government, etc; more than most people might imagine.