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Ah, ok. I can follow this line of reasoning, but this would only work if infected people are symptomatic as soon as they can spread the virus. Right now this isn't yet clear for COVID-19.
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One thing I've read is that immunity for the corona viruses that we normally get - and that cause variants of the common cold - only lasts for about a year or so, which is why we can get these types of colds over and over again. Which is not to say that this particular corona virus doesn't cause a slightly longer lasting immunity, though. How do you figure this? While the principle is correct, I don't think a 0.66% mortality rate (or even a 5% mortality rate, even) is high enough to cause this effect. But IANAE* of course. Yeah, someone from the Dutch version of the CDC pretty much said the same thing in some newspaper or other just a few weeks ago. "This teaches us how prepared we are should a *truly* dangerous virus hit us." or words to that effect. (the answer seems to be: not very) * Epidemiologist
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Just finished The New Pope. It has an ending. Bit too much, I reckon, but as endings go it wasn't bad. But it really nicely dialed up the Weird (tm), pictures were gorgeous and there was lots going to keep entertained by. 8/10 would recommend.
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Interesting. Nice find.
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Keep 'em coming, boys, I'm really digging this. ?
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You can have mine for a lot less. It's also guaranteed to work.
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Pim Bos - Tremen No words, just gray paintings telling a story about ... dunno. Some guy moves around on some ... thing, in some ... desert? Nice and mysterious and probably ultimately just a load of nonsense in that 1970s Moebius (Arzach) vein.
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Wait ... he was still alive? ?
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A bit Boards of Canada, to be honest .
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Yeah, that too, although it might just be the boredom and the fact that you're never truly in the moment for anything - not with your attention on the students and not on whatever else it is you're doing. Plus I like to teach in a sort of dialogue with the class and online that is pretty much impossible. Lucky you that your boss has decided to stop them. For us it's going to continue until July. And soon, to make matters worse, we're going to have online graduation assessments as well - when someone's future is going to depend on how well you can keep your attention on your screen. Oh boy ...
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No, thats' @Nil I teach boring, boring* software engineering. Stuff like this: https://gist.github.com/lolzballs/2152bc0f31ee0286b722 (*) While it takes a lot of the fun out of programming, I've seen - and produced - enough horrible code back when I worked for other people's money to understand why this sort of over engineering is necessary. Students, of course, don't. To them having to think things through before writing a single line of code is an abomination.
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Tertiary education, at a “university of applied science”. A lot of the mechanisms for getting students to acquire knowledge are the same for eighteen - twenty year olds as they are for first graders. As your story illustrates. The difference being that it’s probably easier to reason with my students about the necessity of working this way than it is with your kid. Good luck!
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I teach. It was fun for the first week, for both me and the students. Never seen 'em work so hard in my life. Now the novelty's worn off. They're not as involved anymore and I'm growing sick of having to stare at a screen the entire work day. The reason I started teaching was to move away from that.
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God's finest creation. Not even joking.
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DJ Corona of course.
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It's surprising what we can get used to ... And it's *so* great when you finally leave a messed up living situation like that. Really, really worth it.
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I think you're overthinking the burger thing, but ok.
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Lolwut?
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No, they have contracted pneumonia as a result of catching COVID-19 and having to treat *that* is what causes the hospitals to fill up.
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You know that’s a conspiracy website, right?
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very interesting, thanks! Looks like very poor reporting. Perhaps fake news even. It looks like they took a piece of legit information (the vast majority of Italy’s COVID-19 deaths had comorbidities*) and turned it into nonsense. If you have, say, high blood pressure (or diabetes or heart problems) COVID-19 is very dangerous for you and may very well cause you to die. Would you have been better at surviving COVID-19 had you not had high blood pressure (or diabetes or heart problems)? Of course. But it’s the COVID-19 that kills you, not the high blood pressure (or diabetes or heart problems). * FWIW that was in a regular and normally somewhat reputable Dutch newspaper this morning.
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I'm not sure it's even possible to make bad taco's. Bad burgers, on the other hand ...
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Oh no ... one of the truly, truly staggeringly great greats. Terrible writer, of course, but *such* a fantastic artist. Years ago I visited an exhibition that featured some of his original work. Truly mindblowing to think that came out of the hands of a fellow human being.
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So ... about this feminism thing ...
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