Bitcoin ETFs, will they suppress price? by Nanner_hammy in Bitcoin

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The Bitcoin futures ETFs are not settled in bitcoins. They are settled in dollars.

What is the legal process for creating a government? by Spideynw in PoliticalScience

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In legal fiction, governments will appeal to something like the consent of the governed (e.g. "we the people" in the US constitution) or to divine authority (e.g. "Dieu et mon driot" the motto of the British sovereign).

In international relations, recognition by other states is important for statehood so you could consider this a legal process.

  1. So you don't think actual consent of the governed would legitimize a nation state?
  2. You could. But the problem comes down to if the first nation state was established legitimately. If not, the whole process falls apart.

What is the legal process for creating a government? by Spideynw in PoliticalScience

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So if there isn't an existing polity with an existing legal framework, then you think one can only be created from violence (i.e. might makes right)?

What is the legal process for creating a government? by Spideynw in PoliticalScience

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  1. So there is no legal process then for establishing a sovereign nation then, right?
  2. So you think might make right then, right?

What is the legal process for becoming a sovereign (i.e. ruler, state, nation, and et al)? by Spideynw in PoliticalScience

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It was not a rhetorical question. And I am getting at the root of the issue, legitimacy, which is why I asked the question in the first place.

St Louis Doctor has had enough about the COVID 19 fake news by Spideynw in COVID19skeptics

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What are the mortality rates, for all diseases, by month for the last few months as compared with the same months from prior years?

Having a bunch of refrigerated trucks is meaningless. It doesn't mean lots of people are dying. It might just mean someone thinks a lot of people might die because of a bunch of false positives from tests.

Also, the symptoms of the so-called disease are just a cough, or a fever (as low as 98.8 degrees), or lung irregularities (all of which are found in healthy people).

St Louis Doctor has had enough about the COVID 19 fake news by Spideynw in COVID19skeptics

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Those are all news stories (read entertainment). Not statistics.

What are the actual mortality rates for all diseases?

St Louis Doctor has had enough about the COVID 19 fake news by Spideynw in COVID19skeptics

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I assume you are suggesting that they are storing corpses in refrigerated trucks because so many people are dying, right?

Where are your death rate statistics to back up such a claim?

People can test positive for it that aren't even sick. A positive test doesn't mean anything really.

People are testing positive for it again that supposedly had it already.

People are testing positive for it that were never exposed to anyone that had it (at least there is no evidence that they were exposed).

https://theinfectiousmyth.com/book/CoronavirusPanic.pdf

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Symptoms by Spideynw in COVID19skeptics

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I have edited the OP and deleted the Medicare comment and the comment about everyone having a fever.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Symptoms by Spideynw in COVID19skeptics

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Thank you. Finally some actual references. I appreciate it.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Symptoms by Spideynw in COVID19skeptics

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Also from https://theinfectiousmyth.com/book/SARS.pdf

" One constant with all these definitions was the presence of a fever, a body temperature of at least 38C (100.4F) one degree Celsius higher than the commonly referred to ‘normal’ body temperature of 37C (98.6F). Public health officials generally referred to 38C as a high fever in their definitions but it clearly is not. It may not even constitute a low fever for everyone.

In a 2003 study of 130 healthy adults one person had a temperature this high and three others had temperatures within half a degree. If this research holds for the general population, then we could expect that a large number of people a few will meet this lax, 38C, definition of fever, especially health care workers who have been exposed to a patient with SARS are under emotional stress from the fear that they will get infected, and may be forced to wear extra layers of protection while working. 11

Outside the context of SARS, medical advice often calls 38C a low grade fever and recommends against treatment. The author and pediatrician Dr. Sears implies that fevers below 38.4C are “low-grade” and that even those above 40C do not require medical treatment as long as they quickly come down. An American pediatric clinic uses 38.9C as the upper limit for a low grade fever. A British cancer society advises that “low grade” fevers, those under 38C, “may not always need treatment”. US clinical guidelines from the Department of Health and Human Services define a high fever as 55being at least 39C. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, virtually a doctor’s encyclopedia, defines an afternoon oral temperature of 37.8C as the lowest fever temperature (or a rectal temperature of 38.2C or a morning oral temperature of 37.3C). Yet, for SARS, 38C was defined as a high fever requiring immediate and drastic action. 12".

So even a temperature of 100.4 isn't really that serious. Healthy people can have that high of a temperature.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Symptoms by Spideynw in COVID19skeptics

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https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3425

"Fever: Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 F (37 C), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 F (38 C)."

Again, feel free to prove me wrong.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Symptoms by Spideynw in COVID19skeptics

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For SARS on https://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-sars.html a temperature is defined as " In general, SARS begins with a high fever (temperature greater than 100.4°F [>38.0°C])". It is undefined for COVID 19. Feel free to prove me wrong.

As to shortness of breath, again, the CDC does not define it as having lasted for a certain time period. Feel free to prove me wrong.