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Likely Amish are not obese and death rates would be expected to be lower.

There is sufficient evidence in the coronavirus genome to assess the origin without any further cooperation from China.

The crime against humanity is not the lab leak, instead the crime against humanity is the CCP cover up actions that allowed the spread of the outbreak beyond Wuhan to the rest of the unprepared world.

1. No animal host has been found. 2. At first appearance virus was very contagious to humans. 3. Wuhan Institute of Virology published research on Bat virus genetically engineered for human lethality before the outbreak.

Lab leak hypothesis has more evidence than natural origin hypothesis.

Java can be written with no garbage collection. 1. Pool the business objects and create them all ahead of time. Restore them to the pool after a thread uses them.

2. Create a String pool and use == for equality checks.

3. Avoid Java constructs that create temporary iterators.

for (i = 1, size=myList.size(); i<size; i++)

creates no iterator whereas

for (Object obj : myList)

does. You employ a profiling tool to find the garbage-creating sections of Java code and rewrite them.

I know of a wall street trade matching engine that operates with no pauses for garbage collection that uses these techniques.

Indiana study, excluding elderly in nursing homes says death rate following infection is 0.26%.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505013/

Assume that COVID deaths are accurately reported. Assume 500K dead in the USA already. Then 500K / 0.26% = 192 million already infected and mostly recovered.

With 328 million Americans, 192M / 328M = 58% infected already which is well on the way to herd immunity at suppose 75%.

Its not just the USA, reported cases are dropping in a similar way elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere.

Yay, get vaccinated and be ready to crush this virus again next flu season.

The new part is the assertion that lab researchers got sick in the fall of 2019.

This is consistent with evidence of the virus in Italy in the same time period.

Due to the large number of Chinese working in Italy, there was a direct flight between Italy and Wuhan at the time.

The new Biden administration has no reason to cover this up further, due to the obvious danger that another pandemic results from a lab accident involving designer lethal virus.

This statistic puts an end to the debate about COVID death reporting.

Some said that COVID deaths inflated due to federal subsidies to hospitals with COVID patients.

Some said that deaths would have occurred anyway due to the serious medical conditions - co-morbidities - that patients had.

With this statistic, the explanation for the huge annual increase can only be COVID.

This research is evil.

"We engineered a SARS-CoV-2 variant containing this substitution. The variant exhibits more efficient infection, replication, and competitive fitness in primary human airway epithelial cells, but maintains similar morphology and in vitro neutralization properties, compared with the ancestral wild-type virus."

It should be banned.

I found out at age 68 that I was on the spectrum.

Awesome to have an explanation for the associated super powers and deficiencies.

My main super power is a love of programming from age 17 until now still going strong - learned Selenium in the last few weeks and it rocks.

Very encouraging to find out about the unexpected number of spectrum folks who made historic contributions to human progress. Ambition of course is a spectrum trait.

The analysis is consistent with man made...GoF research is evil.

"The progenitor had all the ability it needed to spread," said Sergei Pond. "There is little evidence of selection on lineages between bats and humans, although there is strong selection on coronaviruses in bats."

Conifer Colorado.

Close to Denver. High elevation town at 8200 feet, homesites to 9800 feet elevation. Adequate internet. Cheaper than Evergreen, and a bit higher. High elevation is good for health. Wildlife (deer, migratory birds, elk, foxes and the occasional Black Bear). Small town but has what is needed. (Grocery, vet, medical, dentist, car repair, chain saw shop) Same distance from ski areas as Denver. Lots of snow in winter, and mild sunny summers.

Need private offices with UV-C lamps sterilizing the air going into each office.

Less sick days will pay for the private office floor space, plus productivity increases.

Use UV-C air cleaners to kill all airborne virus and bacteria in each closed office. Very inexpensive. Look for HEPA air cleaners.

Conference rooms, and lunchrooms can have a personal UV-C air cleaner quietly blowing sterile air at each face.

Closed offices are healthier and much more productive. Employees deserve the increased floor space cost - especially outside urban cores.

Essentially... "“We have tested SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a patient and found that camostat mesilate blocks entry of the virus into lung cells,” says Markus Hoffmann, the lead author of the study. Camostat mesilate is a drug approved in Japan for use in pancreatic inflammation. “Our results suggest that camostat mesilate might also protect against COVID-19,” says Markus Hoffmann. “This should be investigated in clinical trials.”

Better for Microsoft to skin the linux kernel with a Windows like UI. Run classic windows programs in a VM similar to the old DOS box.

Problems with Windows stem from legacy code and its antiquated file system.

In Java, I created thread local resource pools including strings which eliminate garbage collection in sensitive routines. Of course it’s much faster in java to perform pooled string comparison with ==. Likewise I always use the indexed version of a for loop to avoid the iterator otherwise allocated.

GC in java is great for non-priority code which is most of the application.

High tariffs on imports help to bring back USA manufacturing no doubt.

All sufficiently large economies should protect their domestic industries with tariffs. Otherwise its a race to the bottom for labor wages.

Nailed it.

Plus tariffs are voluntary taxes drawing from funds from importers. The economy will slow down as it adjusts to re-industrialization with higher prices paid out as wages to USA workers.

Apparently not because of what is said above about caches being unencrypted.

Past Intel architecture allows two threads to share a physical core in such a way as the cached data of the first thread may be probed with a timing attack to reveal confidential data.

I go for a meal every time I visit the valley.

Chaos Manor. S100 Bus. Wordstar. Parallel port. Reviews of stuff he used every day when writing sci-fi. (The Mote in God's Eye).

CRISPR to the rescue.

Given that much research is from American public financing, why pay foreign grad students to perform research when salaries could be raised enough to attract US resident students.

Disturbing.

Too much porn in Japan?

Note the Big Red Button.

Last time foolish Super Bowl ads were put on the air by startups, was at the peak of the Dot-Com boom.

Is this a portent?

Two points ...

1. The political upheaval that brought Trump to the US presidency may soon depose Merkel.

2. Trump is an isolationist and picked isolationist advisers. Trump's base probably thinks that its a good idea for Trump not to aggressively defend liberalism and freedom throughout the world, e.g. quit the Middle East rather than reform Islam via carrot and stick.

Maybe google can pay for entry-level us citizens to fill their needs.

Hope that others on Trump's list do the same. A major step in radicalization is for some US Muslims to visit a radical Muslim country in order to become more devout and perhaps radicalized for jihad against the USA when they return home.

Extreme vetting may fix individual situations when that policy gets deployed.