Posted on 02/24/2020 7:40:29 PM PST by Moonman62
Singapore reported the discharge from hospital of two recovered coronavirus patients on Monday, marking the fourth consecutive day that the total number of discharged patients has been higher than the number of infected ones.
In all, 53 of the country’s 90 cases have “fully recovered from the infection”, the Health Ministry said in a statement, with one more case linked to a pre-existing cluster at The Life Church and Missions Singapore also being confirmed.
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The city state has been working closely with the World Health Organisation and other countries, Lee said in the letter, pointing to “early indications” that the outbreak was being brought under control.
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WTH man?!?!?!
Depending on such vital things as rare minerals and meds from a communist country?
It comes down to $$ I would assume.
Would you be talking about me bigbob?
Singapore is possibly the cleanest country in the world.
Singapore is the most CLEANED country in the world. Every been to a Hawker Centre?
At home in Singapore, if the Filipina or Indonesian maid doesn’t clean up for the family, it doesn’t get cleaned.
Except in China the air is polluted and the smoking rate is over double.
The Spanish Flu is an amazing story. On many different levels, with many different aspects.
It took place at the end of WW 1. World wide immunity levels were extremely low do to four years of war.
And trade policies. This is a critical area where government trade policy is necessary to protect a nation's free market.
Our founding fathers got it. Trump gets it.
Most of Washington doesn't get it. The libertarians don't get it.
What early out?
I might add one particular characteristic of Singapore over major cities in China....it has almost no real air pollution. I was there two years ago and amazed at the air quality of the area.
Don’t know much about Wuhan, but I would imagine it’s the typical mega-city, and has serious air quality problems.
First bit of good news.
Wait....whut?
You mean there are some good stories out there? Go figure...
Outside China, mortality rate is under 1% but I just saw a scare story saying it’s almost 5%...
Singapore got out ahead of it.
The USA is lagging WAY behind.
Singapore vs USA response is analyzed in today’s excellent video:
Coronavirus: Time To Prepare Is Running Out
Chris Martenson / Peak Prosperity / Feb 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLYnomkC1f
A good read, the fact that our Government is allowing flights in from all these countries that are now spinning out of control means it’s only a matter of time here. It’s funny, after decades of doomsday new stories about some future coming pandemic, the moment it finally arrives they refuse to cut off it’s means of spreading across the planet. Right now the world needs to buy some time to get our medical staff ready and more vaccine trials underway. However, the CDC and WHO are staffed by left wing liberal types who are weighing offending people with the fate of the world. If anything shows you that liberals should never have real power it is the Coronavirus bug. I would bet there is not a single conservative in the CDC with any rank what-so-ever.
Don’t miss the Tuesday update by Dr. John Campbell, a UK physician.
When he’s freaking out, man, that is something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-ZGJz5ci1Q
“The long run is good news when we figure out how to be less dependent on China.”
President Trump is in the process of replacing the ChiComs with India, Vietnam and ???
Darn it Travis, you now have me concerned about the Corona Virus.
I have posting about Intellectuals Yet Idiots written by Nassim Taleb for years.
Here is his main and scary issue:
Our colleges/governments are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades.
Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education IYI’s, who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?, but their main skills is ability to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education IYI are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.) They are prone to mistake the ensemble for the linear aggregation of its components as we saw in the chapter extending the minority rule.
The Intellectual Yet Idiot is a production of modernity hence has been accelerating since the mid twentieth century, to reach its local premium today, along with the broad category of people without skin-in-the-game who have been invading many walks of life. Why? Simply, in many countries, the government’s role is ten times what it was a century ago (expressed in percentage of GDP).
The IYI seems ubiquitous in our lives but is still a small minority and rarely seen outside specialized outlets, social media, and or the IYI.
Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite.
The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are “red necks” or English non-crisp-vowel class who voted for Brexit. When Plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducated”.
What we generally call participation in the political process, he calls by two distinct designations: “democracy” when it fits the IYI, and “populism” when the plebeians dare voting in a way that contradicts his preferences. While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote, with some equivalence for foreign elite schools, and PhDs as these are needed in the club.
More socially, the IYI subscribes to The New Yorker. He never curses on twitter. He speaks of “equality of races” and “economic equality” but never went out drinking with a minority cab driver.
Those in the U.K. have been taken for a ride by Tony Blair.
The modern IYI has attended more than one TEDx talks in person or watched more than two TED talks on Youtube. Not only will he vote for Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison because she seems electable and some other such circular reasoning, but holds that anyone who doesn’t do so is mentally ill.
The IYI has a copy of the first hardback edition of The Black Swan on his shelves, but mistakes absence of evidence for evidence of absence. He believes that GMOs are “science”, that the “technology” is not different from conventional breeding as a result of his readiness to confuse science with scientism.
Typically, the IYI get the first order logic right, but not second-order (or higher) effects making him totally incompetent in complex domains. In the comfort of his suburban home with 2-car garage, he advocated the “removal” of Gadhafi because he was “a dictator”, not realizing that removals have consequences (recall that he has no skin in the game and doesn’t pay for results).
The IYI is member of a club to get traveling privileges; if social scientist he uses statistics without knowing how they are derived (like Steven Pinker and psycholophasters in general); when in the UK, he goes to literary festivals; he drinks red wine with steak (never white); he used to believe that fat was harmful and has now completely reversed; he takes statins because his doctor told him so; he fails to understand ergodicity and when explained to him, he forgets about it soon later; he doesn’t use Yiddish words even when talking business; he studies grammar before speaking a language; he has a cousin who worked with someone who knows the Queen; he has never read Frederic Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshot, John Gray, Amianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadiah Gaon, or Joseph De Maistre; he has never gotten drunk with Russians; he never drank to the point when one starts breaking glasses (or, preferably, chairs); he doesn’t know the difference between Hecate and Hecuba; he doesn’t know that there is no difference between “pseudointellectual” and “intellectual” in the absence of skin in the game; has mentioned quantum mechanics at least twice in the past 5 years in conversations that had nothing to do with physics; he knows at any point in time what his words or actions are doing to his reputation.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class
The communist party doesn’t talk about the deep state, except when they deny its existence.
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