So coronavirus is definitely going to kill a few of us.

[MumblesBadly]

--In reference to the high death total today. There is always a high total on Tuesday, following a weekend slump. So wouldn't read too much into it.

--In reference to home schooling. I am at the point I pretty much am just ignoring all the stuff the teachers send home and we don't even bother with most of the Zoom class meetings. My son has a concentration limit of about 90 minutes-2 hours a day and that is it and I don't want to waste it on low productivity stuff. Instead I am spending that time drilling math and reading comprehension into him, mostly with materials I ordered myself. He is just going to have to do without all the other shit, which is mostly just time wasting as far as I can tell.

Reading comprehension is hard to measure, but math knowledge is easier, and I guarantee he is getting more out of 45 minutes a day with me than he was getting at school.

The socializing part sucks though and I definitely think it is in his (and my) best interests to go back to school ASAP, although I am pessimistic it will be this August. I could see them keeping schools shut down longer.

Some advice handed down to me by two academics I had the fortune of interacting with in graduate school:

1) From one of my Ph.D. advisors who was Korean and specialized in econometrics (and with whom I published some scholarly articles on econometrics when I was fiddling around in that career): To maximize your son’s ability to learn math, get him into the habit of making written copies of what he should remember. Because, as that math-geeky econometrics professor said to each of his graduate students in first semester course in his subject, “The hand will remember what the eye will forget”. I later used that method to recall the significant findings of over 150 research papers, all organized within various topics in the major, when taking (and acing) my second-year comprehensive exam.

2) From Eugene Fama (use the Google machine to learn his credentials), who once guest-lectured my class of grad school cohorts one semester when in town giving a presentation on a working paper: When reading math terms, equations, etc., in a problem, equation, text, remember that math is a language and say every symbol as a word, as well as all of the terms and numbers shown with it. Don’t just look at it and skip pronouncing it, even if only in your head. That vastly improves one’s ability to comprehend what the math symbols are intended to communicate.

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hey nerds and other assorted faggot nerds whats the deal with zoom stock shouldnt this thing be to the moon right now i saw it last week at 122 it went 155 close of market friday how is it not 3 billion

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also you people may hate but im a huge mumbles guy

[ErickAA]

I don't have any particular insight on vaccination theory. I understand some of the problems with Coronaviruses, which include but is not limited to:

1. Single stranded RNA virus, so mutates easily.
2. Covid infects lung epithelial cells, which don't have very much immune exposure, as you actually don't really want a lot of immune cells roaming around your lungs, because lung inflammation is generally bad news.

--In order for an effective vaccine you really have to hope that there are some antigenic sequences which cannot mutate without the virus losing its efficacy, and that is kinda asking a lot for an RNA virus. And on top of this you have to hope you can develop a memory immune response that can target the lungs without fucking them up from inflammation. My understanding is monkey tests with some other coronavirus vaccine (I forgot which one) hit a wall because the immune response was causing so much lung damage from inflammation.

--I still think that something that could be a game changer which is a lot more feasible in a short timeline, is developing some sort of hand held device to measure the presence of Covid antigens. Imagine everyone could test themselves for Covid every morning and have the results sent to some central database through their smart phone, or every building required a Covid check to let you through the doors. It really wouldn't require any major technological leaps to get there. Just someone creatively putting together technology that is already commercially available.

--Also, FWIW generally coronaviruses are very mild in their natural hosts. This includes all 4 coronaviruses that are already endemic to humans. There are some evolutionary/game theory reasons for this. Healthy people generally transmit respiratory diseases a lot better than sick ones. There is a real possibility the virus itself naturally mutates to become milder. And of course humans themselves could evolve, as people more prone to serious disease die out. But who knows how long this might take. Could take years/decades/centuries.

[ErickAA]

hey nerds and other assorted faggot nerds whats the deal with zoom stock shouldnt this thing be to the moon right now i saw it last week at 122 it went 155 close of market friday how is it not 3 billion

How is it supposed to make money? I use Zoom everyday and have never paid a penny for it.

[Crowe Diddly]

hey nerds and other assorted faggot nerds whats the deal with zoom stock shouldnt this thing be to the moon right now i saw it last week at 122 it went 155 close of market friday how is it not 3 billion

How is it supposed to make money? I use Zoom everyday and have never paid a penny for it.

Facebook don;t chrge most peopole either. Neither does google, generally.

they already make a shit ton of money on subscriptions alone. Their potential revenue to data hoarders and/or ad show-ers is off the scale.

[Sanlmar]

hey nerds and other assorted faggot nerds whats the deal with zoom stock shouldnt this thing be to the moon right now i saw it last week at 122 it went 155 close of market friday how is it not 3 billion

How is it supposed to make money? I use Zoom everyday and have never paid a penny for it.

Venmo, Zoom, PartyPoker play money. Home games in the COVID age

Zero rake

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my cracker ass family has been doing full blown zoom chats and yhou need to put a cc up for after 40 minutes they are def getting my fams duckets

[sonatine]

hey nerds and other assorted faggot nerds whats the deal with zoom stock shouldnt this thing be to the moon right now i saw it last week at 122 it went 155 close of market friday how is it not 3 billion

it has a lot of bad press. christians used it in china to attend mass and their shitty server security leaked the calls and the government rounded them up and killed them, that kinda stuff.

also its just profoundly poorly written, google wont allow it on their systems, everyone is styling on them right and left, and they just banned using it for orgies.

so yeah fuck a zoom honestly.

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like were talking wild diaspora chaztown south carolina bay area la france like big zoom chats

[sonatine]

if gare was a junkie he would have heron'avirus

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that is so wildly disrespectful fattlepuss

[sonatine]

one time gare bought a chihuahua and it gave him perronavirus.

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this slander cannot continue jace

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also big facts i refuse to own a dog cat guy por vida

[sonatine]

gare is so sweet we call him tobleronavirus.

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dont let this obese jackal think hes getting traction on tobleronavirus

he is not

[OSA]

gare is so sweet we call him tobleronavirus.

Good thing he wasnt in Italy, cause then hed have the ferrarovirus


Am I doing it right?

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no lock it up chummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm p

[Walter Sobchak]

seriously tho the world record for a vaccine is 4 years and to the best of my knowledge there has never been a vaccine for a coronavirus so theres that.

on the other hand, AI is factoring heavily into this effort and if you look at how far its pushed rapid gene mapping, i mean, there is good cause for optimism there.

You can say a lot of things about the USA but when we put our mind to Something shit gets done.

Not saying it will be tomorrow but I’d take the under 4 years easy.

I hope you're right but when HIV was first identified they also said "18 months to a vaccine."