OT: more from the resident alarmist

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/08/health/coronavirus-hospital-infections-frieden/index.html

A study published Friday in the medical journal JAMA found that 41% of the first 138 patients
diagnosed at one hospital in Wuhan, China, were presumed to be infected in that hospital.
(3000 patients in newly built medical concentration camps will probably all die)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/06/coronavirus-wuhan-china-recurring-winter-illness-flu/4665482002/

Last week, researchers from the University of Hong Kong estimated 75,815 had been infected
in Wuhan as of Jan. 25 and projected the epidemic would double every 6.4 days.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200210-coronavirus-finding-a-cure-to-fight-the-symptoms

Donnelly and her colleagues have estimated the new coronavirus to have a
reproduction number of about 2.6

--- conservative estimates ---

W0 W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6
R0 12/30 1/6 1/13 1/20 1/27 2/3 2/10
WH 2.0 41 192 905 2766 13004 26008 52017
LS 1.8 180 324 583 1049
RS 1.8 197 354 638 1148
RW 1.8 137 246 443 798
G2 1.8 1120 2016 3628 6531
SH 1.5 98 147 220 330
BJ 1.5 113 169 254 381
HK 1.8 17 30
JP 1.5 100 150
US 1.5 11 16

Assumptions:
Ro for W0 to W3 was 4.7
35% spreaded from G0 (Ground 0) to G1 and G2
G0 is saturated, so actual infection rate is capped
G0 daily cremation of 1500, 40% from hospital, 60% from home
G1 (RS, RW, LS) are almost saturated
G2 is rest of China
MP Miltary police and army are not included

 

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)

Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

Meanwhile, a lot of PC boards are not being shipped.




--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet.
"Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"

 

[bitrex]

On 2/10/20 12:37 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

Meanwhile, a lot of PC boards are not being shipped.

The official death toll is under 1000 you know how many people lung
cancer kills in a year in China?

 

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 11:45:22 AM UTC-8, bitrex wrote:

On 2/10/20 12:37 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

Meanwhile, a lot of PC boards are not being shipped.



The official death toll is under 1000

Ha Ha Ha. LOL

> you know how many people lung cancer kills in a year in China?

Unofficial turn-over rate at the concentration camp is 15% daily. 15% in and 15% cremated everyday. You do the numbers. People are afraid of getting rounded-up to the camps. Yes, they are all condemned to die, but they deserve better treatments. Some reports that they only have crackers for food.

Don't call that hospital, even hospice is too nice a term.

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:45:18 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 2/10/20 12:37 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

Meanwhile, a lot of PC boards are not being shipped.



The official death toll is under 1000

and the literacy rate in Cuba is 99.5%.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:37:37 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:

Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

I didn't run this item past Bill Sloman for his permission first, but
here goes:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240523/Coronavirus-satellite-image-scale-of-coronavirus-outbreak-infections-coronavirus-cremation

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 6:57:41 AM UTC+11, edward...@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 11:45:22 AM UTC-8, bitrex wrote:
On 2/10/20 12:37 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

Meanwhile, a lot of PC boards are not being shipped.



The official death toll is under 1000

Ha Ha Ha. LOL

you know how many people lung cancer kills in a year in China?

Unofficial turn-over rate at the concentration camp is 15% daily.

By which he means numbers invented by alarmist fantasy merchants who are as dim as he is.

> 15% in and 15% cremated everyday. You do the numbers.

There's no point in putting in any work on numbers invented by fantasists.

> People are afraid of getting rounded-up to the camps. Yes, they are all condemned to die, but they deserve better treatments. Some reports that they only have crackers for food.

Crackers aren't an item in any Chinese cuisine that I know about, but alarmist fantasists don't bother inventing plausible fantasies.

> Don't call that hospital, even hospice is too nice a term.

Gothic delusion is probably closer to correct.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 11:23:39 AM UTC+11, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:37:37 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

I didn't run this item past Bill Sloman for his permission first, but
here goes:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240523/Coronavirus-satellite-image-scale-of-coronavirus-outbreak-infections-coronavirus-cremation

It's the kind of speculation you'd expect to see published in the Express.

The idea that cremating human remains could push up atmospheric SO2 levels by a perceptible amount is scientifically illiterate. Much of the SO2 in the atmosphere comes from burning coal and oil - coal-fired power stations have SO2 scrubbers in their chimney's, introduced back when "acid rain" was recognised as a problem. If there's more SO2 in the air over Wuhan, the most likely explanation is that the people who keep the SO2 scrubbers working right have been told to stay at home.

The rest of the SO2 in the atmosphere comes from processing sulphide ores. Wuhan province isn't famous for that. Where I grew up in Tasmania was far enough north of the silver/lead/zinc mines around Queenstown that our forests weren't blighted by SO2 in the way that the trees around Queenstown were then.

When we went back to Tasmania some fifty years later, the ore processing around Queenstown was being done less irresponsibly and the a vegetation around that area looked entirely normal.

Cursitor Doom is pig-ignorant, and sometimes it is remarkably obvious.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 4:48:07 PM UTC-8, Bill Sloman wrote:

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 6:57:41 AM UTC+11, edward...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 11:45:22 AM UTC-8, bitrex wrote:
On 2/10/20 12:37 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

Meanwhile, a lot of PC boards are not being shipped.



The official death toll is under 1000

Ha Ha Ha. LOL

you know how many people lung cancer kills in a year in China?

Unofficial turn-over rate at the concentration camp is 15% daily.

By which he means numbers invented by alarmist fantasy merchants who are as dim as he is.

15% in and 15% cremated everyday. You do the numbers.

There's no point in putting in any work on numbers invented by fantasists.

People are afraid of getting rounded-up to the camps. Yes, they are all condemned to die, but they deserve better treatments. Some reports that they only have crackers for food.

Crackers aren't an item in any Chinese cuisine that I know about, but alarmist fantasists don't bother inventing plausible fantasies.

Don't call that hospital, even hospice is too nice a term.

Gothic delusion is probably closer to correct.

I know there is no way to convince you. PLAs are already in the cities. Tanks are already in the city borders. Beijing and Shanghai are in locked-down. Don't know what else to tell you anyway. So, just wait and see.

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 8:07:06 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:45:18 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 2/10/20 12:37 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

Meanwhile, a lot of PC boards are not being shipped.



The official death toll is under 1000

and the literacy rate in Cuba is 99.5%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate

Latvia, Estonia and Poland all do better.

Even Australia has a rate of 99.0%. So does the US.

But then again John Larkin counts as literate, even though he won't read anything that doesn't flatter him.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 11:57:37 AM UTC+11, edward...@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 4:48:07 PM UTC-8, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 6:57:41 AM UTC+11, edward...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 11:45:22 AM UTC-8, bitrex wrote:
On 2/10/20 12:37 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annashedletsky/2020/02/07/coronavirus-hits-electronics-manufacturing-hard-companies-are-scrambling/#75d2b797369c

(Electronic) Factories have been shut down as part of the unprecedented extended Lunar New Year,
which was supposed to end on January 30, and has now been extended until February 9
(not a chance) at the earliest.
(local government requires 14 days quarantine after reporting to factory)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-on-cruise-ship-climb-to-136-11581322993

Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Climb to 135
(they need more flesh air)
(should sent the ship to warmer climate, Australia?)


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

Meanwhile, a lot of PC boards are not being shipped.



The official death toll is under 1000

Ha Ha Ha. LOL

you know how many people lung cancer kills in a year in China?

Unofficial turn-over rate at the concentration camp is 15% daily.

By which he means numbers invented by alarmist fantasy merchants who are as dim as he is.

15% in and 15% cremated everyday. You do the numbers.

There's no point in putting in any work on numbers invented by fantasists.

People are afraid of getting rounded-up to the camps. Yes, they are all condemned to die, but they deserve better treatments. Some reports that they only have crackers for food.

Crackers aren't an item in any Chinese cuisine that I know about, but alarmist fantasists don't bother inventing plausible fantasies.

Don't call that hospital, even hospice is too nice a term.

Gothic delusion is probably closer to correct.


I know there is no way to convince you.

Reliable facts would work. Gothic fantasies don't appeal to me, even in fantasy novels.

> PLAs are already in the cities. Tanks are already in the city borders. Beijing and Shanghai are in locked-down. Don't know what else to tell you anyway. So, just wait and see.

The People Liberation Army has always been around in China, and tanks featured at Tiananmen Square back in 1989.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

Chairman Mao said that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, and Chinese politics continues to reflect that insight.

A plague is exactly the kind of engine of civil unrest where the army is useful.
The Australian bush-fires provoked exactly the same reaction from the Australian federal government last month.

You can be as alarmist as you like, but you haven't got enough sense to have any hope of being taken seriously.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[bitrex]

On 2/10/20 7:23 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:37:37 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

I didn't run this item past Bill Sloman for his permission first, but
here goes:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240523/Coronavirus-satellite-image-scale-of-coronavirus-outbreak-infections-coronavirus-cremation

Wuhan metro area has 15 million people, probably about 500 people pass
there every day in medical facilities from other natural causes. Even
100 more extra deaths per day (a made-up figure based on nothing other
than the notion China is vastly under-reporting fatalities) IS A BLIP
it's is not going to cause SO2 plumes to be visible from satellite!

 

[Phil Allison]

Bill Sloman wrote:

------------------

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate

** The percentage data is worthless.

Derived from self declared, voluntary surveys of non impaired adults.

Next to useless and very misleading.

Like most stats.



...... Phil

 

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 5:12:39 PM UTC-8, Bill Sloman wrote:

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 11:23:39 AM UTC+11, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:37:37 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

I didn't run this item past Bill Sloman for his permission first, but
here goes:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240523/Coronavirus-satellite-image-scale-of-coronavirus-outbreak-infections-coronavirus-cremation

It's the kind of speculation you'd expect to see published in the Express..

The idea that cremating human remains could push up atmospheric SO2 levels by a perceptible amount is scientifically illiterate. Much of the SO2 in the atmosphere comes from burning coal and oil - coal-fired power stations have SO2 scrubbers in their chimney's, introduced back when "acid rain" was recognised as a problem. If there's more SO2 in the air over Wuhan, the most likely explanation is that the people who keep the SO2 scrubbers working right have been told to stay at home.

Except that the power plants are not in the city. Even Chinese are not dumb enough to put power plants inside the city. There are three slightly red areas to the left of the city. That's where the power plants are in.

 

PLAs are already in the cities. Tanks are already in the city borders. Beijing and Shanghai are in locked-down. Don't know what else to tell you anyway. So, just wait and see.

The People Liberation Army has always been around in China, and tanks featured at Tiananmen Square back in 1989.

Yes, using tanks in street when problem is serious enough.
Perhaps it happens often in your country.
But in our country, tanks stay in bases and not in road checkpoints.

 

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 7:10:02 PM UTC-8, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:12:16 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 5:12:39 PM UTC-8, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 11:23:39 AM UTC+11, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:37:37 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

I didn't run this item past Bill Sloman for his permission first, but
here goes:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240523/Coronavirus-satellite-image-scale-of-coronavirus-outbreak-infections-coronavirus-cremation

It's the kind of speculation you'd expect to see published in the Express.

The idea that cremating human remains could push up atmospheric SO2 levels by a perceptible amount is scientifically illiterate. Much of the SO2 in the atmosphere comes from burning coal and oil - coal-fired power stations have SO2 scrubbers in their chimney's, introduced back when "acid rain" was recognised as a problem. If there's more SO2 in the air over Wuhan, the most likely explanation is that the people who keep the SO2 scrubbers working right have been told to stay at home.

Except that the power plants are not in the city. Even Chinese are not dumb enough to put power plants inside the city. There are three slightly red areas to the left of the city. That's where the power plants are in.

It takes fuel to cremate bodies. We use natural gas here. Maybe the
Chinese use coal.

Most likely kerosene, they use it for cooking.

 

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:12:16 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 5:12:39 PM UTC-8, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 11:23:39 AM UTC+11, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:37:37 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:


Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

I didn't run this item past Bill Sloman for his permission first, but
here goes:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240523/Coronavirus-satellite-image-scale-of-coronavirus-outbreak-infections-coronavirus-cremation

It's the kind of speculation you'd expect to see published in the Express.

The idea that cremating human remains could push up atmospheric SO2 levels by a perceptible amount is scientifically illiterate. Much of the SO2 in the atmosphere comes from burning coal and oil - coal-fired power stations have SO2 scrubbers in their chimney's, introduced back when "acid rain" was recognised as a problem. If there's more SO2 in the air over Wuhan, the most likely explanation is that the people who keep the SO2 scrubbers working right have been told to stay at home.

Except that the power plants are not in the city. Even Chinese are not dumb enough to put power plants inside the city. There are three slightly red areas to the left of the city. That's where the power plants are in.

It takes fuel to cremate bodies. We use natural gas here. Maybe the
Chinese use coal.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet.
"Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 1:38:26 PM UTC+11, Phil Allison wrote:

Bill Sloman wrote:

------------------


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate



** The percentage data is worthless.

Derived from self declared, voluntary surveys of non impaired adults.

Next to useless and very misleading.

Like most stats.

Ask anybody who doesn't like what the statistic appear to be telling him.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 2:10:02 PM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:12:16 -0800 (PST), edward.ming.lee@gmail.com
wrote:

On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 5:12:39 PM UTC-8, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 11:23:39 AM UTC+11, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:37:37 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:

Zerohedge is resolutely alarmist, but this is interesting:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/does-sudden-surge-so2-levels-suggest-huge-surge-cremations-across-china

I didn't run this item past Bill Sloman for his permission first, but
here goes:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240523/Coronavirus-satellite-image-scale-of-coronavirus-outbreak-infections-coronavirus-cremation

It's the kind of speculation you'd expect to see published in the Express.

The idea that cremating human remains could push up atmospheric SO2 levels by a perceptible amount is scientifically illiterate. Much of the SO2 in the atmosphere comes from burning coal and oil - coal-fired power stations have SO2 scrubbers in their chimney's, introduced back when "acid rain" was recognised as a problem. If there's more SO2 in the air over Wuhan, the most likely explanation is that the people who keep the SO2 scrubbers working right have been told to stay at home.

Except that the power plants are not in the city. Even Chinese are not dumb enough to put power plants inside the city. There are three slightly red areas to the left of the city. That's where the power plants are in.

It takes fuel to cremate bodies. We use natural gas here. Maybe the
Chinese use coal.

It takes people as silly as John Larkin and Cursitor Doom to fail to notice that the fuel used to cremate dead human bodies is a very small proportion of the fuel used for other purposes.

You've got to be serious;y gullible to take anything printed by the Daily Express seriously, and Cursitor Doom and John Larkin do seem to be our most gullible regular posters.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

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On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 9:10:19 AM UTC-8, edward...@gmail.com wrote:

Last week, researchers from the University of Hong Kong estimated 75,815 had been infected
in Wuhan as of Jan. 25 and projected the epidemic would double every 6.4 days.

That's the big reveal; the exponential growth time constant means that, unchecked,
the last uninfected region succumbs...in this calendar year. Too soon for a vaccine solution.

Cities are especially swift in transmission, and it started in a city, but this could easily
outpace the flu pandemic of 1918-1920 because there's more population in cities nowadays.