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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by throwanem on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:54PM (#22196178)
Do you have a strong prior for large bureaucracies, especially at their interfaces with one another, not being sluggish? If so, how do you come by it? If not, whence comes the doubt whose benefit you seem so anxious to give?
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by staticautomatic on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:58PM (#22196221)
My comment is rooted in a general reluctance to make assumptions about things that have empirical or theoretically provable answers, particularly ones that could be obtained without much effort. Some people call it "science."
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by throwanem on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:25PM (#22196518)
Oh, well. Shouldn't you be citing me into silence, then? This mere unsupported assertion ill befits a man of science, after all.
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