When you quarantine someone, you're waiting to see whether a well person gets sick, but when you isolate someone, you're waiting to see whether a sick person gets well.
@tchrist By the way, our Institute of Health quoted a Norse study estimating that 200,000 people would need to wear face masks in public for an entire week, in order to prevent a single infection.
No. They realized that even under strict orders to stay home but for essentials, wear marks, and all the rest, that it still wasn't enough to stop the spread because it ran through households then. They had to isolate every single sick person in those special holding places, never at home.
I know that Danes and Dutch alike are off masks. But the Danish have seemed to have done better.
I don't have any answers.
But to live and die in the country who has done the worst at protecting its populace was not something I ever dreamt would happen in my wildest nightmares.
It's unlikely that we'll come up with a vaccine that promotes sterilizing antibodies that completely annihilate the virus so that it can never take hold in a person. We are likely only to get ones that reduce the severity and duration, and even then they'll probably need annual boosters.
And the old they may not work as well on. So we still need to have very good treatments.
We have to live this strange way for another year or two, if we're to live at all.
Eventually. Yes. It is, after all, basically a supercharged cold virus with complex entanglement patterns that strike different people in different ways.
> Please read the attached documents carefully and sign on them to confirm your agreement with the proposed terms.
Do I need on there?
It was announced that the Russian vaccine will be probably used as soon as August 15, although initially it will only be used in teachers and doctors and other critical workers.
Basically it will be an impromptu stage III clinical trial, performed on citizens.
It must be bad, but I feel that I'm waiting for it to happen sooner.
@Xanne No, the Russian vaccine actually lags behind some Western vaccines in development. It's that the Russian Govt has decided to jump a step or two in the process and start vaccinating without fully confirming the efficacy.
But I'm not sure if they really will start wide-scale vaccination.
They seem to vacillate.
I personally would take a shot right away, I hope it's not very dangerous.
But if I were a politician I don't know if I would sanction such a speedy roll out.
Would Humanitarian Institute be understood as "Institute where humanities (art, history etc.) are taught"? Or is it better to use Humanities Institute?
@CaptainBohemian Also horrible situation in Bangladesh due to floods
I'm a pharmaceutical translator, and I'm proofreading a Russian-to-English translation of a form to be signed by a participant of a medical education course. The text includes the following sentence:
Accordingly, I undertake to indemnify the Company, the local distributor , other companies of t...
A complex question for me. I'm not sure whether we can use damages in Legal English to indicate losses, or whether it is always used to indicate "the sum awarded by Court to be paid to Plaintiff".
The original in Russian only indicates "losses" (of different kinds).
@CowperKettle damages means both the harm and the recompense.
damages 1. Destruction or a loss in value, usefulness, or ability resulting from an action or event. 2. Law Money required to be paid as compensation for an injury or wrong.
In light of the question Is manna physical? what about our current understanding of angels would allow us to perceive that they indeed eat physical food?
“Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.”
Psalm 78:25
Do ‘angels’ (heavenly hosts) eat food just as Jesus ...
Seeing the following sentence, ‘The analysis of James as the ruler of a composite monarchy produces many new and important insights.’ I think it's fine to say _many insights_.
Seeing ‘All this research has brought to the surface new detail, though few new insights.’ I think _insight_ can serve as a countable noun.
> The Church of Scientology says that a human is an immortal, spiritual being (thetan) that is resident in a physical body. The thetan has had innumerable past lives and it is observed in advanced Scientology texts that lives preceding the thetan's arrival on Earth were lived in extraterrestrial cultures. Scientology doctrine states that any Scientologist undergoing auditing will eventually come across and recount a common series of events.
> Scientology is unique within the UFO culture because of this secretiveness, as well as because of the capitalist format under which they operate. Scientology is also difficult to categorize. While it bears strong similarities to the Ashtar Command or the Aetherius Society, its emphasis upon the Xenu event as the central message of the group seems to place them within the ancient astronaut tradition. Either way, Scientology is perhaps most different from other UFO groups in their attempt to keep all of the space opera stuff under wraps. They really would have preferred the rest of us not t…
Well, there are very few traditions including aliens, because man's religions and cultures used to believe the heavens did not includes planets like ours, but were mostly just inhabited by supernatural beings, centred around the Earth.
Like angels and demons.
The planet Venus was not conceived of as a place where people could live, but rather as a star, a smallish point or ball or light.
A planet was just a 'wandering star' (because the planets are points of light that change position, as opposed to other stars). It is from a Greek verb meaning "wander".
@Færd No. But for most that have traditions describing the heavens.
I think.
@Færd Yes, but they did not live on continents and in forests on extraterrestrial worlds: I think there a conceptions of other, comparable worlds outside the Earth existed in most cultures.
Planets do not resemble the Earth in any way or form. They were completely different, not habitats.
I'm a pharmaceutical translator, and I'm proofreading a Russian-to-English translation of a form to be signed by a participant of a medical education course. The text includes the following sentence:
Accordingly, I undertake to indemnify the Company, the local distributor , other companies of t...
In light of the question Is manna physical? what about our current understanding of angels would allow us to perceive that they indeed eat physical food?
“Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.”
Psalm 78:25
Do ‘angels’ (heavenly hosts) eat food just as Jesus ...
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