Exactly. You can purchase a subscription free version of Office *right now* if you want. It’s “Microsoft Office 2019.”

Exactly my case as well. I got swine flu and I couldn’t get out of bed for a week. It eventually morphed into walking pneumonia. I was sick as hell for over a month. Ever since I’ve had the shot. Anything I can do to prevent any kind of flu again I’m going to do.  Haven’t had it since.  KOW

As for gifts, I send my closest friends stuff basically any time of the year, whenever I see stuff that I think “oh that looks like something Rob would like”. Makes a LOT bigger impact and is far more appreciated, tbh.

The valve masks are such that my local grocery store has a sign that says the valve on valve masks must be closed to enter the store.

Much like the flu shot, even partial effectiveness is better than ending up in the ICU or worse.

I’m not a lawyer, so I really don’t know. Let me ask you straight: If it turns out Epic has a case, will you disagree with the court system and side with Apple?

He didn’t “reactivate” the Space Force. It’s existed as Space Command in the Air Force in one capacity or another for decades. He just carved it away from the AF and made it a new branch, which is exactly how the Air Force was created back in 1947 when they separated the Army Air Corps from the Army. Also, Star Trek’s…

Here in Arizona, the gun stores did either appointment only, walk up, or curbside pickup. I don’t think that was *actually* a requirement from the state (which classified them as essential and would have legally allowed them to stay fully open), but a lot of them operated that way. The background check requirement was…

I collect allied WW2 rifles.

There are so many reasons to buy multiple guns, but you don’t need a single one. Why do people have multiple cars or a fun, weekend motorcycle? We like variety and choice has been considered a positive hallmark of capitalism for as long as this country has been around.

I don’t understand people who have a problem with me owning more than two guns. I could only shoot two at a time. So anything past the second gun is harmless.

For many, many gun owners, it’s a hobby, just like golf, racing, etc.  Some like to hunt different animals with different calibers or just punch holes in paper.  It can be therapeutic.  Owning multiple guns is no different from someone investing $2500 into top-of-the-line golf clubs (plus range/course fees and…

Contact tracing seems like kind of a fool’s errand to me, honestly. We are never going to be able to follow all of the points that lead to situations where Matthew McConaguhey is attracted to Jodi Foster, the billionaire guy somehow built a second space machine, the aliens chose the form of Jodi’s Dad all to say…

Or the complexity of any systems. People seem to think Ford can retool a production line from F-150s to medical supplies overnight, or that 3M can ramp up production of masks by a factor of 10 on demand (and that, after the Chinese are taking the production of 3M’s Chinese factories for themselves).

It’s not even anecdotal, there’s clear evidence populations where mask wearing is common have lower transmission rates.

This article is not going to age well.

Just updated this with more context provided by the lead author. While it’s true that patients in this study did get other antiviral therapies, none of them had shown much success in other studies. Again, as I take pains to point out several times, this doesn’t mean hydroxychloroquine can’t be an useful treatment for…

To be clear, I did try reaching out to the contact info of the authors listed in the paper to clarify these sorts of questions. But it’s been understandably hard to get in touch with anyone in China right now. Will obviously update the article if I hear back!

Second: Prevention of bacterial coinfections in patients whose lungs have been compromised by the virus.

That’s nice, the adults are having a serious discussion on creating real solutions.

ah, the privileged life of a person who can make ridiculous and borderline offensive comments about how to prevent HIV.