> Canada's Candu reactors are the safest ones ever designed and built.

I did some reading and was kind of surprised to find that
the deuterium-mediated technology is the one that I first 
read about in the 1950s and assumed to be the dominant one.
Imagine my surprise. A little further digging indicates
that the obstacles are twofold - they are not very cost
effective (though if one factored in the probability of
major disaster they might be more attractive), and they
somehow contribute (in what way more so than other kinds
is unclear) to the development of atomic weaponry in 
countries that have access to them, India for example.

>  ML> My view is that masking is mostly windowdressing.
> Not so. Just look at the stats for Asian countries like China, Japan
> and South Korea who having been masking up routinely ever since Sars
> vs some of your non-complaint red sates. Heck, right now there are
> more active cases in the Whitehouse than the entire country of New
> Zealand.

That's post hoc ergo propter hoc. Nobody, least of all me, 
denies that controlling access of the microorganisms to our 
bodies (not denying it, which is impossible) is important. 
Masking is an artifact of mutually conflicting theories all 
of which are believed at the same time. Physical distancing
is the only thing that works, that and the avoidance of
excess hot air, both of which are substantially violated
in Washington.

> In Canada our second wave came back with a vengeance when we started
> to relax the three basics: masking, physical distancing and limiting
> crowds. Those three things taken together are very effective.

We will have a hundred waves. If we react to each one 
this way, we'll die of starvation if not viral infection.

>  ML> If the new orthodoxy is true that this virus can
>  ML> be transmitted by long-distance small droplets
> That is indeed a scary notion, but the above measures will surely
> reduce if not completely eliminate new infections.

Oh ye of too much faith!

>  ML> the pretense that wiping down tables and chairs (especially the
>  ML> latter) will make a difference
> I agree that that idea is a bit dubious and in all likelihood
> ineffective and unnecessary.

And in the long run will increase fungal and bacterial
infections, the tables part anyway. Chairs is just
plain silly. I've heard of people butt-dialing automobile
upgrades but not virus shedding.

>       Title: Harvey's Manhattan

I'd drink it and why not. But a real Manhattan tippler
should see it as anathema. Actually, Bristol Milk or
Bristol Dry (do they make these products any more?)
would make my palate even happier.

> ... Stock up on ammo for the coming swine flu zombie apocalypse

In the Sack
cat: booze
servings: 1

3 oz cream sherry 
2 oz apricot nectar 
3 oz orange juice 
1/2 oz lemon juice 
1/2 sl orange

Shake ingredients will with ice, strain into glass, 
garnish with orange slice.

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