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by mark000 Peter Sandman, Risk Communication Consultant, Princeton, New Jersey, on Human Reactions to Risk and Why Denial is a Bigger Problem than Panic: Reactions and overreactions When people initially become aware of a risk, they overreact. They have a temporary short-term overreaction. People pause what they’re doing, become hyper-vigilant, check out the environment more carefully … Read more

by coolcomfort123 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/apple-amazon-microsoft-and-alphabet-and-the-road-to-1-trillion.html There’s a familiar theme to each of the four $1 trillion technology giants. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet have all looked to services and cloud businesses for growth in the past couple of years. These four tech companies are dwarfing the rest of the stock market, too, making up 17% of … Read more

by bigbear0083 Welcome to month end January! S&P set for its worst weekly decline since around mid-August 2019. As of this posting, the S&P has wiped away all January gains. Headlines pointing to the worsening cornavirus as today’s catalyst. While other outlets pointing to Bernie Sanders’ latest surge. Me? I say this market was overdue … Read more

by BEGB13 Zerohedge, the financial news blog runs this article then immediately gets account suspended. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/coronavirus-contains-hiv-insertions-stoking-fears-over-artificially-created-bioweapon This happens hours after r/Wuhan_Flu gets quarantined for ‘hoax content’ Reddit has had a $150 million investment from Tencent, a ‘Chinese censorship powerhouse’ as another Redditor put it. Looks to me like there must be some truth to these claims if … Read more

Students demanded divestment from fossil fuels, a professor offered to turn off the gas heating. Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting a meeting to discuss the protesters’ demands, which are that the college “declares a climate emergency and immediately divests from fossil fuels”. They say … Read more

by basedBlumpkin https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1223437435679326208?s=20 COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — The Democratic National Committee has opened the door to allowing former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York to participate in the presidential debate it will sponsor in Nevada next month, a change from its practice that demanded candidates demonstrate grass-roots fund-raising support. The D.N.C. announced Friday that … Read more

What the updated coronavirus travel alert level and the additional border measures will mean for you. Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) advice for the public. China Then And Now: Why Coronavirus Is A Bigger Threat To Global Economy Than Previous Outbreaks. Coronavirus: thousands of Hong Kong hospital workers back strike to demand closure of border with mainland … Read more

So, I was going over the nih press briefing and the USA def called China out in that briefing. So, if China was really concerned about this virus and it’s global implications, why would they not let in a superpower, with many, many resources to help with their problem and preventing a global crisis? I … Read more

Emerging data on the new virus circulating in China adds to evidence there is sustained human-to-human transmission in the city of Wuhan, and that a single case was able to ignite a chain of other infections. The World Health Organization reported Thursday that there have been at least four generations of spread of the new … Read more

We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature [i.e. accidental / by … Read more