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    Protests to open up States

    I've changed this answer a couple of times, as I read more specifics. Tucker asked Murphy later whether he had talked to a lawyer about it. He had. A reasonable understanding of his original answer is that he wasn't qualified to give a legal analysis. But he had consulted lawyers (which he...
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    Protests to open up States

    The people at the tables are all speaking. Just not next to each other. I think the governor believes that leaders should follow the rules they ask others to follow. I agree. It's not just for news conferences. While I'm not in a position to observe personally, they've said they follow similar...
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    Protests to open up States

    That's a hit piece. His evidence of luxury is that she bought ice cream? So did I. Like Nancy I couldn't live without ice cream. But there's not, as far as I know, an ice cream shortage, and I have to get groceries anyway. A more interesting example is the contrast between NJ briefings and...
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    How can they close churches, and set aside our Bill of Rights and freedom of religion?

    I'm reasonably sure that prohibiting all meetings would pass constitutional muster. It isn't aimed specifically at churches, and there are plenty of other ways to exercize our religion. At least in NJ (which is where Murphy is) churches aren't closed. Indeed there's an explicit exception in the...
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    When do we reopen the country back up.

    I would be crazy to consider only saving the very most possible lives, without trading off the economic impacts. No one that I'm aware is being that extreme. On the other hand, no one wants to lose a million people, which was possible. I'm pretty sure we'll start making compromises in late May...
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    When do we reopen the country back up.

    The models are showing that the initial hump won't go away until the end of May. For NY and NJ it's the end of April, but states that started later are ending later. I think it's pretty clear that it will be a slow start. I have no idea exactly how that will work. I'm 70. I'd rather not have...
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    Cure for the Coronavirus Pandemic

    I'm not a modeler. I'm an IT manager. The President is using models from the University of Washington. They're available at http://covid19.healthdata.org/. I've read many news stories describing different expert opinions. Based on that, I think this site is on the optimistic side. It projects a...
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    Cure for the Coronavirus Pandemic

    1-2 million was before the current distancing. Currently 100K seems a reasonable projection. But you can't compare it with flu because we're doing lots of things to control it that we don't do for flu.
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    Cure for the Coronavirus Pandemic

    Not a vaccine, but there are a few treatments that look promising. End of April seems possible.
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    Cure for the Coronavirus Pandemic

    There are several phase 1 trials. Unfortunately it's still at least a year away. Phase 1 trials just make sure that the vaccine doesn't hurt anyone. They don't determine that it works.
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    Cure for the Coronavirus Pandemic

    Please don't confuse "being tested" with "a cure." It is an anti-viral. For some viruses it inhibits their reproduction. Whether that's true in this case is still under study. According to Wikipedia, it is contraindicated for people with diabetes and heart disease. Since those are the most at...
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    Stimulus relief

    Standard bargaining tactic is to claim the other side is holding up a deal. You have to look at what each is holding out for in order to make that judgement.
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    Stimulus relief

    There are disagreements over what should be done. It sounds like the concerns are real.
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    National Gaurd in 3 states

    I believe the governors had already activated them. It appears that Trump has, as requested, done a Title 32 activation. That leaves them under the control of the governor but the Federal government pays them. That's different than Title 30, which Federalizes them, putting them under Federal...
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    Stimulus relief

    No one knows how this is going to end. It's possible that a one-time stimulus might make sense then. But that assumes it ends in a clear way. I'm not so sure it will.
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    Stimulus relief

    This isn't a recession. In a recession you can give people money, and hope they'll spend it and spark the economy. But that won't work now, because the problem is that we've shut down the places they would spend it. We need a replace the income of people who have been laid off, which is being...
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    Abstaining from an appearance of evil

    Here's what TDNT says. It's one of a couple of major lexicons of NT Greek: 3. εἶδος is often used for manner, and this is the most likely meaning of 1 Th. 5:22: ἀπὸ παντὸς εἶδους πονηροῦ ἀπέχεσθε, “keep yourselves from every evil manner.” The link with v. 21 makes this preferable to the older...
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    Will Churches be closed due to coronavirus pademic?

    It's a disaster, which is going to expose a lot more people than it prevented. The problem with bureaucracies is that no one is in a position to say "this doesn't make sense." We've gone from underreaction to making things worse. Lines outside grocery stores are the same problem.
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    Will Churches be closed due to coronavirus pademic?

    Yes, I think the models suggest that this kind of screening isn't worth doing.
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    Will Churches be closed due to coronavirus pademic?

    There's no practical way to remove all opportunities to get the virus. From an overall perspective all we need to do is significantly lower the rate. There are some odd precautions. In NY they are limiting the number of people who can be in a grocery store at one time. Interesting idea, but the...
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