In the Seattle paper, there are already reports of people paying three times the listed value for one. Besides that, the city gets 1.5% in sales back as taxes. Then with these articles and publicity, there will be currency collectors, historians, souvenir hunters, and probably a few people that just never get around to spending or turning in their last bit of script. A significant chunk of the script may never be turned in for their share of that $10k after all is said and done.

Yes, but we are still in the middle of this. Even assuming the majority of infected people were asymptomatic and never accounted for, less than 1 or 2% of the population (American at least) has been infected. States are starting to loosen up restrictions now. In the flu of 1917/1918, the biggest infection wasn't the initial one but the second wave that happened after people got sick of isolating and went out an celebrated the end of WW2 instead. People now are protesting isolating restrictions. We may see the huge infection surge that will require these ventilators yet.

It does the same thing as GotoMeeting but is one tenth the price.

You can easily do that in Zoom also, but it's just that people don't want to.

To be honest, as IT that deals with modernizing my hospital to new software, most of the problems are the hospitals not wanting to spend the time to analyze their workflow, figure out how to do things better with the new software, and instead just demand that the software completely duplicates their current paper system. Things get introduced like unnecessary dependencies that were due to following a piece of paper around from person to person are duplicated for no reason. I've talked to the vendor implementers and it's usually the same, every section is siloed off and only knows their part of it. If the process is already automated, IT might know because we have to work out how errors occur and fix them. However, most of the hospital runs on cargo cult training where everybody just does as they have been trained and trains the next person to do the same for years.

"And then after we run this report, we print it to this IP."

Why?" asks IT.

"We've just always done that."

After tracking down that IP that turns out to be a different department of the hospital. "Yes, this area used to be part of that department five years ago. We've never known why these reports keep printing out every week or who they were coming from. We just toss them."

People are making money in this bubble and they don't want to miss out.

I have two coworkers (and their families) that are quarantined as told not to leave, period. Not sure if they have been tested or not, but both have symptoms, are working from home, and current testing requirements are to test only test if would be needed to determine treatment.

As somebody that has been on unemployment before, it most certainly counts as income and they will certainly tax you for it as such.

Good thing we don't have to deal with you up there then. Hotel in question is being retrofitted for people requiring hospitalization, not just anybody with the virus. Somewhere around 5% of those affected are critical and require hospitalization. There are a limited number of such hospital beds for such treatment. Even then 2% of those affected still die. Once those limited number of beds are taken up, all 5% will die. This is to increase the amount of hospitalization that will be possible for such people.

I believe that amount came from a news article where a guy was billed that when he went into the ER with the flue, and declined any treatment except the Corona Virus test. He was negative. They wanted to do a chest X-Ray which would have told them if he has a resperatory infection, ie the corona virus, but he declined. Not partial to the bill or that hospital's MCR, not sure if that would have saved money or not. Still, the proper response is to stay home, call in to your hospital and discuss your symptoms. There's no reason to go to the hospital unless you need hospitalization, which is about 5% of the cases of the corona virus. If you have body aches, sore throat, and other sympoms of the flu, then you have the regular flu. If you have fever, cough, and trouble breathing, and not the others, then you have the corona virus. Going to the hospital just for a test just takes up resources for more serious cases, helps to spread whatever you have, and will cost lots of money.

I believe that amount came from a news article where a guy was billed that when he went into the ER with the flue, and declined any treatment except the Corona Virus test. He was negative. They wanted to do a chest X-Ray which would have told them if he has a resperatory infection, ie the corona virus, but he declined. Not partial to the bill or that hospital's MCR, not sure if that would have saved money or not. Still, the proper response is to stay home, call in to your hospital and discuss your symptoms. There's no reason to go to the hospital unless you need hospitalization, which is about 5% of the cases of the corona virus. If you have body aches, sore throat, and other sympoms of the flu, then you have the regular flu. If you have fever, cough, and trouble breathing, and not the others, then you have the corona virus. Going to the hospital just for a test just takes up resources for more serious cases, helps to spread whatever you have, and will cost lots of money.

In this case it's the singular of fasci.

Having read other articles on the story, it doesn't matter how you acquire it. Think of a wallet. You find a wallet in your car. If it's full of info on who it belongs to and you make no effort to return it and the money in it, it would count as stealing. In this case, the tracking device wasn't marked, so he had no method of tracking down the owner, so it wasn't stealing to have kept it in his house which is what the cops were saying. IIRC, this was the example used by the judge to explain why it wasn't theft.

That's pretty much how it is supposed to work. Haven't tried it, but from inspection of the other store they have on First Hill, it is all done by your phone app which presumably has a credit card registered with your account. Entrance is gated, so you can't even get in, let alone out if you don't have the app installed on your phone and it finds no issue with what you ware doing. The gates are those RFID type things they have at other stores but instead of just an alarm, they actually control a gate that allows entrance and exit. I only saw one guy that looked like a guard inside, possibly double duty as instructor on how the system works.

Yes, something like that. My head canon on this stuff: However it also ties into the replicator. Replicators can't create living creatures because too much of being 'living' is tied up in all those quantum states. It seems to indicate that it is not possible to write such a pattern or normally copy it. Instead, when the transporter begins the process, it puts the item being transported into the 'transporter buffer' that saves the pattern and all that quantum information. This is apparently a destructive process and not normally copiable. This buffered information is then used to reform the new body. It's how Scotty survived for years in the dyson sphere in a TNG episode, by storing himself in the buffer, although others did not survive the process. The inability of copying the buffer pattern is something like putting Schrodinger's cat in a box, and them just dumping it out again in the same state. It's not possible to look in the box to copy that information because trying messes with all that location and momentum uncertainty.

However, we have various episodes where it was copied. Kirk in TOS during a cosmic storm, where we get a good and evil Kirk, and then something in TNG with Riker. this is why I said it is not normally copyable. There are apparently cases where the pattern can be split, copied, or otherwise modified. I don't even want to think about episodes where the transporter became a fountain of youth machine and made everybody teenagers again physically, but they kept all their memories. I mean, that, like the Genesis bomb, is pretty much a setting changing tech that by all accounts should have repeatable and if nothing else used for medical issues.