I, personally, am very concerned about Mariupol, the Russians there are free to do whatever they want (torture, rape, etc..). As they are there for quite some time already, they also had time to cover up their wrongdoings which is even more concerning.
The Bucha was taken by the Russians and, as they are retreating to theirs border right now, the Bucha is now again in Ukraine hands and now it became possible to document the atrocities.
I agree that space can accommodate these satellites, but what about the used up resources required to build the satellites? The shortage of natural resources, as of now, will only worsen and the losses are more costly than the price - its always possible to print more money but its not possible to print more resources.
You think the current global financial system is energy efficient? How about the raw materials used by global militarizes financed by unending money printing? If you fast forward a couple decades, and Bitcoin becomes the global reserve currency, mining will be far more efficient than the amount of enormous military spending and middle-eastern oil production financed by fiat currencies and the petrodollar standard.
You people are advocating for shutting down one of the most important human advancements of all time – money that is directly linked to energy.
It is not efficient, I agree. But the cryptocurrencies should be of low priority right now, there are much more significant topics and problems, plus - how do you expect people to use cryptocurrencies if they won't even have any computers due to various shortages caused by the miners?
Same thoughts crossed my mind. Described mental illnesses appeared much more likely due to isolation and a lot of alone time while being sick (or just being quarantined) rather from COVID-19.
Won't this reignite the spreading of the virus? Like, they missed a few people who were asymptotic and not tested, and are roaming the streets with other people?
Almost certainly. Nobody realistically thinks that we'll be able to reach a steady state where new outbreaks never happen. But they were able to suppress the outbreak in Daegu, so there's reason to be confident they can do it again.
No, because they test people regularly and do accurate contact tracing. Thanks to a favourable regulatory environment and a profusion of capable people, South Korea scaled up testing and tracing capacity very rapidly. Furthermore, they were socially prepared to do the basic social distancing.
Also, Taiwan has done an excellent job, and they didn't need to perform nearly as many tests. AFAIK there hasn't been a single additional confirmed case in Taiwan for the last three days.
Taiwan also has a lot of preventative measures, i.e. mandatory mask usage in mass transit systems, government issued masks and mask rationing system, automated temperature checks at various public spaces, mask usage in schools, plastic dividers at restaurants... on top of that they have a very sophisticated scalable method of tracking people who have the virus and ensuring that they are abiding by quarantine rules via tracing the location of their cell phone.
In my city, people are still arguing whether or not people in the mass transit system should be wearing masks.
what are the arguments against wearing masks on transit? i’m no fan of masks, but wearing them on mass transit (of any kind) makes sense. lots of random people in a relatively small, enclosed, and cramped airspace elevates transmission risk materially (as opposed to wearing them outside, where it’s negligible).
