Those exist because the hospitals are privately owned. An area doesn't want hospital companies getting into a pricing war and then both going under leaving the area without hospital service at all.
There'd be no reason for it with a public health care system.
The government tries to keep medical care expensive to avoid competition that might result in some instability so the cure is … government running health care.
I was referring in general to wearing masks, not strictly gauze ones. They probably realized afterwards that gauze ones weren't the most effective, but some of todays people jumped straight to refusing masks.
I understand your comment and see the sense in it, but it made me wonder about decomposing the clauses to see what it means if it gets broken apart (excusing myself for over analyzing what is a simple statement)
>somewhere, at some stage
Well - why not on a video conference? And what stage(s) really require this? Most folks know what they are supposed to do / need to do to make things work - those that don't are in need of supervision / mentoring.
>people must get together to help you decide what to work on?
I misread this initially as "decide what you should work on" but I still think that there's not enough emphasis on the "we" part - in that really I see these decisions as being about co-ordination and helping everyone else out as much as anything else.
Others like myself want to disappear into a dark room and code for hours on end.
Is the antithesis of working out business requirements / design etc so you have something to code?
I find the coding part of my job is about 5-10% of the actual job, mostly, it's working out what needs to be done, how I might go about it, and how to manage complexity.
It's rare that can be all done without input from others. I don't think I'd get very far if I just coded in a dark room for hours on end.
It's the old adage "you can go faster alone but you go further together"
We hear about how people are now working much faster due to remote. Which is not surprising. But it's not really clear if that will yield to things going much further.
Delta variant was identified in India in December 2020. India began administering vaccines in January 2021. Vaccine refusal could not have played a role.
With regard to the Delta variant, certainly. But it surely has played a role in the subsequent known variants that have appeared as recently as the Olympics.
All of which contribute to our lack of herd immunity, or am I incorrect?
The current vaccines were/are known to be non-sanitizing. The best vaccines are sanitizing, think measles vaccine. We never were going to reach herd immunity
via natural infections and it appears with the current batch we're not going to with vaccines either. Natural infection and a now-canceled nasal vaccine did produce sanitizing effects albeit shortlived.
Towards your original point, only 15% of the world is vaccinated. Say even 5% extra could have been vaxed by now, a difference maybe but nowhere close to the order of magnitude difference required to drop mutation rate below multiple helpful ones per year
Thank you for taking the time to explain that — that is largely new information to me and I appreciate the succinct summary with clear starting points to learn more.
> Democrats have looked at rigorous issue polling that presents pro and con arguments on both sides of various topics, I’m told.
The article also states this information is hearsay. I would want to see a more comprehensive and open look at voter preferences before drawing conclusions.
It’s widely regarded to be true for Marek’s disease.