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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

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Yes, that is one hypothesis.

Well gravity is still a theory too but but most modern scholarship points firmly at Kansas, and then it jumped to Fort Riley, and spread through other over crowded Army bases, boarded a ship with the troops and landed in Breast France, infected thousands there, went quite in the summer, mutated (they have a solid genetic chain of evidence, much of it cited in the footnotes of the article you posted including the accepted best book on the subject and the meticulously referenced and researched The Great Influenza by John Barry), came back in a more deadly, mutated strain, brought 4 great armies to their knees, halted the 1918 German offensive, came back across the Atlantic and killed tens of thousands in Army bases and millions in cities and traveled around the world, again, killing millions more. It's not hard to trace these things over time. Heck, scholars have used written records to track the progress of great plagues since Roman times.

Just want to note that "theory" in science is not the same as "theory" in colloquial language. In science, it means a model that is proven and encompasses all the evidence and principles therein. In conversation, it means simply a hypothesis. I wasn't aware of the research you mention - I'll have to dig into that sometime... sometime.


PS - Breast France sounds like a swell place.

Isn't it more like "not falsified", "consistent with the evidence"? In other words, no examples which contradict the theory have been identified?

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Cut back on the number of Chinese students allowed in the US as well as encourage other countries to do so. I prefer things which have greater impact on that government and less impact on ordinary people. I don't like this option. Encourage companies to move elsewhere. Pass laws/treaties that if the production of a certain product does not follow certain environmental standards, then add a tax to the product. HAVE CUSTOMS INSPECT EVERY SHIPMENT FROM CHINA. Bad option. I think. The delay on that will cost money. Inspect it on the ship before it unloads the cargo. Eliminate the mailing rate situation where it costs less to mail things from China to the US than it does from within the US. Really? That one is news to me.

One of those recent Chinese students was an officer in the Chicom's Army. I believe that the student was in Boston with that professor recently arrested along with the other Chinese student caught smuggling biological samples through US Customs.

Having customs inspect all shipments could help keep illegal and counterfeit goods out of the US.

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Why is China to US shipping cost so much cheaper than US to China?

Jun 5, 2013 1:01:44 AM

I bought an item from a seller in Hong Kong for $6 and $1.50 shipping. The item was broken so the seller told me to return for refund.

The shipping weight is 5 ounces. To ship from the US to Hong Kong with the cheapest USPS service that has delivery confirmation (priority international) it will cost $34.87. To ship 1st class without tracking it will cost $11.48.

How in the world did the china seller pay for the product, pay ebay and paypal fees, pay for packing material and ship to me WITH TRACKING for 1/4 of the cost it would cost me just in shipping costs alone to send the item back?

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Shipping-Returns/Why-is-China-to-US-shipping-cost-so-much-cheaper-than-US-to/td-p/2838826

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The "Theory of Everything" will have to explain why I put the lint trap in backwards EVERY time when I should get it right half the time. And what happens to the missing socks? I am suspicious there is an undiscovered particle called the "anti-sock"

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The "Theory of Everything" will have to explain why I put the lint trap in backwards EVERY time when I should get it right half the time. And what happens to the missing socks? I am suspicious there is an undiscovered particle called the "anti-sock"

If the washer load on a vertical washer tub is quite large, the socks can be forced up and fall in the space between the tub and the outside machine panels. I know because I found a couple while repairing my washing machine. But most often, static cling makes them hide in the other clothing from the dryer load.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The "Theory of Everything" will have to explain why I put the lint trap in backwards EVERY time when I should get it right half the time. And what happens to the missing socks? I am suspicious there is an undiscovered particle called the "anti-sock"

If the washer load on a vertical washer tub is quite large, the socks can be forced up and fall in the space between the tub and the outside machine panels. I know because I found a couple while repairing my washing machine. But most often, static cling makes them hide in the other clothing from the dryer load.

Let's build a $1B sock accelerator to test that theory.

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The "Theory of Everything" will have to explain why I put the lint trap in backwards EVERY time when I should get it right half the time. And what happens to the missing socks? I am suspicious there is an undiscovered particle called the "anti-sock"

If the washer load on a vertical washer tub is quite large, the socks can be forced up and fall in the space between the tub and the outside machine panels. I know because I found a couple while repairing my washing machine. But most often, static cling makes them hide in the other clothing from the dryer load.

Let's build a $1B sock accelerator to test that theory.

Better put that out in the desert or something.

1 gm of mass has an annihilation energy of 9 x 10**13 Joules. That's about 4 KT How much does a sock weigh?

In grams about 60-120 gm

https://www.google.com/search?q=How+much+does+a+sock+weight&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS895US895&oq=How+much+does+a+sock+weight&aqs=chrome..69i57.11664j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Say we have a middling sock of 90 gm...x 4 KT...360KT...plus the anti-sock (I think is the same)...so you have 0.72 Megatons...close to a Minuteman III warhead.

You would think I would have noticed this by now having lost at least a hundred socks. I will have to check my figures.

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The "Theory of Everything" will have to explain why I put the lint trap in backwards EVERY time when I should get it right half the time. And what happens to the missing socks? I am suspicious there is an undiscovered particle called the "anti-sock"

If the washer load on a vertical washer tub is quite large, the socks can be forced up and fall in the space between the tub and the outside machine panels. I know because I found a couple while repairing my washing machine. But most often, static cling makes them hide in the other clothing from the dryer load.

Let's build a $1B sock accelerator to test that theory.

Better put that out in the desert or something.

1 gm of mass has an annihilation energy of 9 x 10**13 Joules. That's about 4 KT How much does a sock weigh?

In grams about 60-120 gm

https://www.google.com/search?q=How+much+does+a+sock+weight&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS895US895&oq=How+much+does+a+sock+weight&aqs=chrome..69i57.11664j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Say we have a middling sock of 90 gm...x 4 KT...360KT...plus the anti-sock (I think is the same)...so you have 0.72 Megatons...close to a Minuteman III warhead.

You would think I would have noticed this by now having lost at least a hundred socks. I will have to check my figures.

In Cap's house

Behind the dryer there lived a brown mouse.
Who made his home in a wall of Cap's house.
From floor to ceiling and wall to wall,
Yes even in the bathroom stall,
All lined with socks that had no match,
by a mouse the house-cat could not catch.

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Sammy, given the level of scrutiny in place in the US, anyone who dies under any circumstances is likely being tested and counted. That is true whether they die in a hospital or at home or in a hotel. Coroners and other officials strive to assign an accurate cause of death in the US. I don't think that's changed. In fact, it's probably more likely given the spotlight on the coronavirus.

As for healthcare, Cap Mandrake has already confirmed that anybody in the US who presents at a hospital for treatment will receive it. I think Cap used the phrase "this is indisputably true." Most Americans know this. Not all of them will seek medical services, for any number of reasons, but if they do they'll receive it.

As far as the coronavirus is concerned the US offers/provides universal healthcare.

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An interesting article, I have no idea how correct it is, I have no medical training.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/seeing-the-invisible/india-has-only-one-choice-anders-tegnells-swedish-approach/

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The level of crisis in NYC and immediate vicinity is without question overwhelming all kinds of emergency services right now. So how they manage things, from intakes to disposal of bodies to testing for cause of mortality, may be set aside temporarily until things are under control. And they're slowly improving already. But when all is said an done, science and medicine will do their best to present accurate totals.