In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment

Herd immunity is a dumb idea when we don't know what we're dealing with. Humans don't have a great track record with developing herd immunity from respiratory pathogens. Never did. We usually end up developing medicines to tamp down the symptoms.

A lot of the times we're just crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.
How many times have we heard that the vaccines we use are for flus that we've already caught? We get reinfected.

All the best,
Nonoise

I'll never understand how some fall for the patently stupid propaganda. This is not some kind of flu. I remember when the naysayers were wetting themselves over the coverage and complaining about how the regular flu kills 40-70K people a year and only 38 have died so far. And that was around the month and a half mark. Look at it now and we're only in the 5th month.

When I had my surgery yesterday, one of the nurses told me a friend of hers was on vacation, skiing in Italy when it all started, and he caught the virus over there. He went through the pneumonia stages and survived that and now he's experiencing the minor blood clotting and has to have some of his fingers amputated. 

It attacks most of your organs, not just the lungs. It hits people in different ways. One patient back east went through eight blood transfusions as it kept destroying all his red blood cells.

Some people who have survived need two different types of inhalers to keep breathing. One is a healthy, 33 year old journalist who used to jog regularly. Just last week it was floated that this may end up being endemic like HIV and be with us forever. 

All the best,
Nonoise

Yeah, I saw those pictures of crowds in Brooklyn, in Central Park and other places in NYC. Level of brain power and solidarity are incredible. What kind of music would you play to them ?

A nice dirge, perhaps?

It’s the crowds.

That first reopen rally in Lansing ended with those nuts going back to three major locations, tracked by their cell phones (which has gotten to be a very valuable tool). All three locations reported a 50-200% increase in infections afterwards.

And a Arkansas minister and his wife who insisted on holding services both tested positive and infected 35 members with the virus which so far has killed 3.

The virus still has an R0 of over one so that should tell anyone everything they need to know.

It’s the crowds.

All the best,
Nonoise

@b_limo ,
Check out The Smoking Tire (One Take) by Matt Farah on YouTube who also pens for Road & Track. That should get your motor running.

All the best,
Nonoise

The circus can take many forms. Bread is just bread.

Watch any episode of Billions and you'll never ask that question again.