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OriginalGriff wrote: Still makes more sense than Bitcoin
Maybe it's my age but, yes, I'm with you.  In fact, pretty much everything makes more sense than Bitcoin!  I'm just waiting for the little boy to shout: "Look! The King isn't wearing any clothes!".
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There is probably more debt in the world than there is money, the financial world trades on paper and derivatives valued at multiple times the worldwide GDP... and Bitcoin is the thing that trips your trust meter? 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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DRHuff wrote: and Bitcoin is the thing that trips your trust meter?
It's not the only thing. Anything involving IT/Computers is on my list! As are politicians, the press, the police, bankers, advertising & marketing people, managers, estate agents.... Yeh, I have a big list! 
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I hope 100 Shreddies would = 1 Nana
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK[^]
It's a rolling 7-day "new cases" map of the UK - slide the date and see what happens after vaccinations started at the beginning of the year (remember that it started small for logistical reasons)
Want to get back to "normal"? Get vaccinated. The data is pretty clear ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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preaching to the choir, aren't you?
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Not all of use ate singing from the same song sheet ... 
The Lounge[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I guess that counts as a renewable resource
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Interesting. Thanks for the link.
My immediate locale is "suppressed" so (if the blurb is correct) the case count is too low to count without identifying individuals, although perhaps oddly we're right next door (i.e. a few hundred yards) to a "10-49" and a "50-99" area.
I very strongly suggest there are a lot of unreported, minor-symptom cases.
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No chart handy but I get a report from the Governor's office (NY State) each day and the number of cases has headed down as the vaccine density has increased significantly. The seven day average (entire state) as of today is 2.09% of those tested. Only a couple of weeks ago it was about 3.5% .
In chemical kinetics (an old field of mine) it would be called a threshold effect. This was similarly observed in Infrared Laser Photochemistry (a multiphoton process).
It gives me some faith that herd immunity will indeed be possible: if not from enough of the population being vaccinated than because the idiots who didn't died off.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: It gives me some faith that herd immunity will indeed be possible: if not from enough of the population being vaccinated than because the idiots who didn't died off.
Did you ever read The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling?
The problem is that the idiots aren't dying off fast enough. Au contraire, they appear to be spreading further and wider. Eventually they will exceed the carrying capacity of the productive people, and civilization will collapse.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It depends - to paraphrase the folks down-under:
"Put a couple more dopes on the barbie".*
Problem solved ?
(Admission: idea not dissimilar to Jonathan Swift's solution to the Irish Potato Famine[^]
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modified 28-Apr-21 11:06am.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: the folks down-under
Now there's an idea - make idiocy a transportable offence, and ship them all to Australia.
Leaving Australia will only be allowed by competitive examination.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Not a problem - more tucker for the crocs, spiders and snakes. And we already have a large proportion of idiots (SB - Australian politics)
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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The trouble is that wisdom is finite, but stupidity is a renewable resource.
Or at least it's a problem for now, until we can figure out a way to generate power with it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: until we can figure out a way to generate power with it.
Giant treadmills?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Vaccine is the most idiotic step you can do AFTER flu (yes, COVID is a flu!) came into country - TOO LATE, too useless.
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What about all the people who haven't had COVID yet? You seem to be speaking with the assumption that every person has already had it before.
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Unfortunately, EVERY single guavament did everything to EXTEND(!) period of flu - yes, by these lockdowns, "sit at home" and other idiocity. Anyway, more than a year past since the first mass flu. What you think, will vaccine from "previous year stamm" helps today?? Did you hear anything about mutations?
COVID mutates (as any normal flu) and when you become infected - just question of time. EARLIER IS BETTER, because all of us must at once get this crap and heal. Only this way we can eliminate virus in a shortest period.
Of course morons who "rule the world" don't need "easy way" - they need to eliminate "middle class", downgrade economy and return you to 19th century. They even don't need 5G  - it's enough to kill middle business (what exactly is happen right now).
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So you are saying you are an idiot if you get the vaccine after getting the flu. Since the flu epidemic in the US has reduced by 98% then this doesn't apply to most people, so what you are actually saying, logically is get the vaccine, yay! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: the most idiotic step you can do AFTER flu
... unless of course you are taking the vaccine to prevent yourself from becoming seriously ill from catching it again (you can catch flu more than once so why not Covid-19)
Or to avoid catching one of the new variants ...
Or if you are one of the millions of people in any particular country who hasn't caught it ... yet
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Living in a country that pretended (and it seems still pretends) it's nothing special at all. Just some sort of sniffle? Those people sick and dying are just faking it?
I'll just make a mental note: we've another troll in the lounge.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Living in a country that pretended (and it seems still pretends) it's nothing special at all.
Really? I think you are referring to the US but I recall Trump shutting down travel over a year ago and many criticized him for that. Then he kept pushing to get vaccines produced and distributed.
But then on the other hand, I live in a mostly rural area and no one around here cares about wearing masks or any other prevention and some people have got it and most have been just fine. It seems that if you have been impacted very negatively then you believe Covid is very very bad and if you have not been impacted very negatively, you believe it isn't as bad as many are making it.
To each his own perspective.
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SeanChupas wrote: Really? I think you are referring to the US but I recall Trump shutting down travel over a year ago and many criticized him for that. Then he kept pushing to get vaccines produced and distributed.
Trump left handling of COVID to the states. Lounge rules prohibit further comment on this.
But in your country - one of the worst hotbed of COVID - you hide out in the country and pretend that there aren't bodies piling up world-wide - and SA has nearly 55,000 of those dead (that were reported). SO - since you don't know any of them you don't give a f*** - and don't even, I would imagine, believe they are dead based upon your original post's attitude.
SeanChupas wrote: To each his own perspective.
Ostrich's stick their head in the ground to make reality go away - and I imagine you do the same by bending over enough to stick your head up your own . . .
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