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I have one of those Battelle units.
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I have one of those Battelle units.
Maybe you got the good v2 unit.
Trump administration paying huge premium for mask-cleaning machines. Which don't do the job.
The president pressured the FDA to waive rules for mask-cleaning machines that ballooned to 10 times the original cost. But the process may damage the masks.www.nbcnews.com
"It sounded like a great deal: The White House coronavirus task force would buy a defense company’s new cleaning machines to allow critical protective masks to be reused up to 20 times. And at $60 million for 60 machines on April 3, the price was right.
But over just a few days, the potential cost to taxpayers exploded to $413 million, according to notes of a coronavirus task force meeting obtained by NBC News. By May 1, the Pentagon pegged the ceiling at $600 million in a justification for awarding the deal without an open bidding process or an actual contract. Even worse, scientists and nurses say the recycled masks treated by these machines begin to degrade after two or three treatments, not 20, and the company says its own recent field testing has only confirmed the integrity of the masks for four cycles of use and decontamination."
I am clearly in the wrong line of business.
Military might, yes you may have a point. Soft power, I don't quite agree. A lot of the world is bound by debt and dependency on China hence its effect.
However, that is not really the point. The fact is an alliance is needed from nations/ institutions to curtail China's pervasive influence.
Or they have deep pockets in China. There is not a single rich Chinese businessman who is not deeply connected to the Communist party, whether through family or was formerly a government official; the West wants to conduct business in China, this is sort of the price to pay. Though I do believe we can force their hand if we weren't so consumed with greed.
Or they have deep pockets in China. There is not a single rich Chinese businessman who is not deeply connected to the Communist party, whether through family or was formerly a government official; the West wants to conduct business in China, this is sort of the price to pay. Though I do believe we can force their hand if we weren't so consumed with greed.
Work nightmare - a collection of corporate bullshitters and over-promoted wasters on a Zoom meeting. In this case the BBC.
W1A Lockdown Special - Initial Lockdown Meeting - British Comedy Guide
A guide to Initial Lockdown Meeting, an episode of W1A.www.comedy.co.uk
Fortunately the (air)Head of Brand - Siobhan -is not on this particular call
Coronavirus: Immune clue sparks treatment hope
Better understanding of Covid-19's impact on the immune system gives hope an existing drug might aid recovery.www.bbc.com
"It has been found those with the most severe form of the disease have extremely low numbers of an immune cell called a T-cell.
T-cells clear infection from the body.
The clinical trial will evaluate if a drug called interleukin 7, known to boost T-cell numbers, can aid patients' recovery."
We should use what they used in the Resident Evil movies.
This is much better in The Spectator:
Three reasons why a coronavirus vaccine might not be possible
The world is being held hostage by an organism so small that even the most powerful microscope could miss it. It has taken thousands of lives and brought superpowers to their knees. It has also united us in suffering and opened our eyes to the fragility of our way of life. A proposed panacea iswww.spectator.co.uk
We don't have a vaccine for SARS. Neither for MERS. And if a vaccine isn't possible, then why in God's green earth are we quarantining ourselves? I thought it was until a vaccine is developed, administered and this thing is gone 100%.
When did making and selling shit nobody needs become a business in the first place?
I think its hilarious that "the economy" tanked just because people stopped buying shit they don't need for a couple of weeks. When did making and selling shit nobody needs become a business in the first place?
I think its hilarious that "the economy" tanked just because people stopped buying shit they don't need for a couple of weeks. When did making and selling shit nobody needs become a business in the first place?
Late this afternoon, my neighbour came home and pulled an enormous Sony box out of his car, so it looks as though he just went out and bought a big-screen TV.
So it looks like not much has changed.
It’s like she’s fused Fwiffs and Pimps’s talking points:
I completely forgot, it is probably that simple.Over 100 years ago as pointed out be Marx, Veblen et al.
Exactly.
Unfortunately, though, for the past half century or so, our modern economies have largely been built on unnecessary consumption, and on continually increasing that unnecessary consumption.
At the risk of sounding like a hippie, I had hoped that the enforced break from needless consumption would lead to a rethink, to get people or society at large to realise that we don't actually need to buy all of this shit and that it doesn't actually make us happier or improve our lives.
Unfortunately, though, now that restrictions are being relaxed where I am, it seems that people are rushing out to buy all the things they weren't able to do so over the past month. I went food shopping yesterday morning and there were people walking out of the shopping centre with bags of shoes, sporting gear, brand-name clothes, jewellery stores and lots of other things, none of it particularly crucial. Late this afternoon, my neighbour came home and pulled an enormous Sony box out of his car, so it looks as though he just went out and bought a big-screen TV.
So it looks like not much has changed.
Couple of weeks? It's almost 3 months. And it affected the service economy too - no not just the cleaning lady. Dentists are moaning too.
Apparently creatine wasn't covered by his insurance plan
that's literally the point of the economic system we run on.I think its hilarious that "the economy" tanked just because people stopped buying shit they don't need for a couple of weeks. When did making and selling shit nobody needs become a business in the first place?
What do you expect, people to live reduced lives eating cold turnips?
Your post sounds very puritanical.
Nice strawman!
Needless to say, I wasn't suggesting that we should all reduce ourselves to "eating cold turnips" while dressed in sackcloth and ashes.
I was simply observing that our economic system is largely built on the impossible myth of ever-increasing consumption of stuff that we largely don't need. So as to help achieve that, businesses compete to convince us to consume their wares in the hope that, in some way, we will be better, happier, trendier or more desirable.
I was hoping that, during the period of enforced downtime, there might be an awakening realisation that, in fact, such consumption doesn't really make people better or happier. It might provide a quick hit of dopamine but it quickly wears off, as quickly as Instagram followers go in search of the next post to like.
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It’s a tough drug to kick. Especially in the Internet Age.
I think a lot of people spent their first few months of self-isolation online shopping. I’m a world gone upside down with uncertainty, the familiar comfort of consumption and the ensuing dopamine high for them through. and to reinforce it, the state gave us all a cheque and told us to ‘stimulate the economy’ by spending it straight
It's similar to my vacation allotment at work. I have 6 weeks. Where would I go even if I take a day off?