I'm with Simon. When the Good Lord punches your time card...that's it...
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Yup. Nobody ever gets past the finishing line He'd demarked thousands of years ago.
The accuracy of this app is terrible. Australia has been over 100 for a week now, and as of today, over 200.
No worries here. I'm pretty sure that I'm immortal. I haven't been proven wrong yet.
THEN FOLLOW THAT UP WITH A SMOKE. DOCTORS ORDERS
That's my brand of choice! I'm practically a doctor!
But I'm glad this got brought back up. I was disappointed I had to close @saintpeter s thread. Good info on that one.
I am stockpiling Viagra...for the hard times ahead.
Let us know if it gets stolen. We’ll keep an eye out for hardened criminals.
Here's an interesting tidbit...this article is from June 29, 2017.
These investors must not be too happy...just missed the maturity date by 4 months...that's gotta suck. What odd timing.
These investors must not be too happy...just missed the maturity date by 4 months...that's gotta suck. What odd timing.
The World Bank’s “pandemic bonds” are designed so investors pay in the event of an outbreak
The pandemic bonds work like this: Investors buy the bonds and receive regular coupons payments in return. If there is an outbreak of disease, the investors don’t get their initial money back. There are two varieties of debt, both scheduled to mature in July 2020. The first bond raised $225 million and features an interest rate of around 7%. Payout on the bond is suspended if there is an outbreak of new influenza viruses or coronaviridae (SARS, MERS). The second, riskier bond raised $95 million at an interest rate of more than 11%. This bond keeps investors’ money if there is an outbreak of Filovirus, Coronavirus, Lassa Fever, Rift Valley Fever, and/or Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. The World Bank also issued $105 million in swap derivatives that work in a similar way.
The World Bank’s “pandemic bonds” are designed so investors pay in the event of an outbreak
The money is part of a $500 million "Pandemic Emergency Financial Facility."qz.com
Oh a fellow geographer! Will light an extra pipe for our profession from the enforced home office/home schooling setup. Had to shift the webcam on my laptop away from the pipe shelf already for all the work related online meetings....
I hope that as this crisis develops, people gain a greater appreciation for the selflessness of the health care providers on the front lines dealing with infected patients. People in the military and law enforcement typically get the "thanks for putting your life on the line" kudos, but I think people will realize (if they already haven't) that so do the doctors, nurses, CNAs, etc., ableit in less violent circumstances. This crisis may be an atypical example of what they face every shift, but it's still a risk.
If someone here or one of your family members is one such person treating the infected or potentially infected, thank you.
If someone here or one of your family members is one such person treating the infected or potentially infected, thank you.
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Numbers are pretty shaky until testing becomes widely done. The unaffected carriers like most children under 14, may never be quantified with much precision. Then there are those only mildly affected, who may not be entirely quantified. The hospitalized and those more ill will probably be accounted with some precision, but it will take a while. Ugh. I hope the nay-sayers are correct and that this will all just fade from view in a week or two; sounds dreamy-headed to me, but we'd all like that.
Maine CDC has just bought a second machine for testing viruses (however that's done?????), but this new one can do the novel coronavirus testing in addition to the others.
My wife says she just heard on the radio there's a second positive tested person here in Maine, down in Portland. The first one was somewhere here in Androscoggin County where we live. If there's two cases identified, we've probably got at least a couple dozen unidentified as yet.
My wife says she just heard on the radio there's a second positive tested person here in Maine, down in Portland. The first one was somewhere here in Androscoggin County where we live. If there's two cases identified, we've probably got at least a couple dozen unidentified as yet.
Yeah, that's a significant question actually...and a rabbit hole that I won't jump into here...but I'll just say that there's a lot of assumptions and blind faith when it comes to anything we're told is science.
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