Nnnnnope. Cuomo sent the virus into nursing homes. Trump tried to stand up to Gilead but people with financial interests at the NIH and even the Alphabet board of directors have had their way im the US in sharp contrast to many poorer countries around our planet. Virginia hasn't had a single child death but will they let kids go to school?
The article is well referenced and documents multiple cases of Trump wilfully harming the response to the virus, therefore causing many preventable deaths. Do you have any sources for your claims?
I can see how someone might invest in a personal water tank or food pantry but what exactly are you going to do to prevent people from breathing oxygen that was released by your trees?
There have been plenty of stories of hollow gold bars and, true or not, they've been trending again lately.
Gold hasn't always or everywhere been real money, I've personally worked on an archeology site where I sifted out a tiny shell bead with an even tinier hole punched in it so it could attached to a string like ancient Chinese coins and so on.
I once read a claim that J.P. Morgan said something like money is only worth the character of the person who wields it.
I feel more like interactions with other people are more precious than precious metals.
If the dollar hyperinflates, some people will go into bunkers. I'd maybe starve or hide... I don't have a plan, I'm way behind on stuff as it is.
There have absolutely been cases in history where other forms of "money" have been used, but in a long enough timescale of a civilisation, gold and silver are organically adopted as money due to their unique properties that make them suited for it. Fiat, shell beads, and other forms of currency are exceptions to the rule.
I dunno, I feel like Potosí being the highest population city in the Spanish Empire in the 1600s, even larger than Madrid, even though its elevation was about 13,000 feet, even though Denver's elevation is only about 5,000 something feet high, suggests an inorganic impetus, an illogical fetish for silver
There are other catastrophes pending than COVID-19. It can't really compete with the repression of schooling or church service or bars or thrift stores or, or, or...
Krugman's first piece post 9/11 was about how getting to rebuild a skyscraper was somehow going to be a tremendous economic stimulus, as if the loss of so many knowledgeable and wise people being murdered all at once didn't occur to him... AT ALL!
In college I read the NYT everyday, thought it was the best paper in the world. Then one morning I opened my copy to see a full color photo of my rapist attached to a hagiography of how she had been elected to public office.
Now the NYT CEO is still Mark Thompson, who got the job because as Director-General at the BBC he covered up Jimmy Saville's... I don't have a word for it yet.
Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for using the NYT to cover up Stalin's genocide of Polish people so that American media didn't seriously cover it until the 1980s.
Don't get me started on how many people with Gilead financial ties are acting as if financial incentives might somehow statistically significantly effect their behavior because it seems to just give me sleep deprivation.
I think more along the lines of having a partner in a healthy relationship requires some time put forth, which unless the partner is pair programming, time is not being spent on development efforts.
Find a partner that has creative hobbies. My wife knits and writes, and I also write and design/code games/apps. We both need time to work on things, so it works out well for the most part (less so when she was in a creative slump and only wanted to watch TV every night for several months).
I also can do routine coding while the TV is on (doesn't require a lot of thinking, just typing it up and testing for minor bugs), so I can still make some progress during that, but it's less.
Granted I do have to spend more time on the relationship/taking care of dogs than when I just lived by myself, so I'm less productive than I used to be, but I still get to work on things.
The cozying up to Gilead was bad enough. The NIH COVID-19 response group has way too many people reporting financial ties to Gilead. Then you find out the Gilead CFO left to work for the Alphabet/Google/YouTube corporate board on March 1 2020, and suddenly the unprecedented ban on videos that threaten Gilead's potential to make many billions of dollars, as long as HCQ is banned, makes inexorable sense.
I think the claim is that mumble rap dominates this new ecosystem, that this ecosystem is less diverse, and that this ecosystem does not seem to be changing significantly.
I have no idea about Spotify or mumble rap but that's how they might not contradict.
