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Those Whuan pictures made my blood boil.

Revenger for all the boyfriends and girlfriend we hid from them :D It's a big relief. My dad is in his 70's but he's healthy, my mom has asthma so she struggled more but thank god they recovered. True. As we have in Farsi, to be equally cruel to everyone is justice :grin:

I meant via Skype. I haven't seen them since 2015. 1597775708 But I got tested for antibodies because I got sick in early February and later thought it might have been corona, but the result was negative.

This is my mom's Covid antibodies test results. My mom and dad both got Corona around 50 days ago and didn't tell anyone. I was in contact with them every other day but this was at the same time my aunt passed away, so I was thinking that was the reason why my mom didn't look alright and...

Perks of being in a business school :grin: Though many MBA classes will be face to face even at Ivy schools that can afford to go completely virtual.

Yeah I know some graduate-level classes or those involving lab work are like that. But they strictly told us that even if we meet face to face only once during the semester, students can choose to stay home and access the class online.

Students will not be forced to attend the classes face to face as far as I know (at least in universities). Some schools went fully online, some made it hybrid. The latter polled the students to see whether they want to be in class. The majority (in some cases +70%) said yes. Those who want to...

Sorry to hear this :( If you are living together and it’s been 15 days, chances are it’s hopefully not Covid, or if it is, your parents have already been exposed but not gotten sick, which is a relief.

I agree completely hence why I try to be realistic about it. But the trials have been very promising. Even if only doctors and people who work in hospitals can access it in the beginning it would be a great step forward. It sucks to live life like this but I have been lucky to be able to keep my...

They are in Iran. My uncle is hospitalized. My cousin has asthma but his symptoms are milder. Sorry about that :sad: My highschool friend's father passed away in Esfahan two weeks ago. He was in his 60's but had heart problems. The whole thing was fast, his symptoms were improving but he...

My uncle, his wife and their two children all got corona :sad:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3635047 "By alerting the public earlier and reducing contacts, extensive testing when the pandemic was declared could have averted 35.3 (32.7-42.7) million cases and 197 (171-232) thousand deaths. However, future outcomes are less dependent...

I’m hopeful, their lawyer is hopeful, and he knows and said himself that things like Trump’s tweets can hurt their case. Armed robbery is part of their charges (enough for a death sentence in Iran as you know), last thing they need is bogus charges of being connected to “foreign enemies”.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3666 For the first time, a majority, 53 - 46 percent, have either been or personally know someone who has been infected by the coronavirus. Voters give the president a negative 35 - 62 percent approval rating for his handling of the...

It'd be probably against the HIPAA privacy rule. 1594840052 It is very likely to backfire (than to have any positive outcome) in the case of political prisoners in Iran by making it much easier to connect the prisoners/activists to foreign countries, which in most cases is the basis for death...

These kinds of reactions have no effect at best but can seriously risk lives at worst.

People in many Asian countries were used to wearing masks before Covid, it's not because they are less spoiled. I know that we tend to pay too much attention to videos of crazy people refusing to wear masks in stores but these people are not representing the whole country or even the party the...

On why herd immunity is difficult to achieve: 1594773760 Believe me, not everything is about him. This conversation is/was happening everywhere and my educated guess is that most countries don't give a shit about what's happening in the US schools.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality I'm still amazed at how South Korea handled this. They have only 289 deaths, with the lowest CFR (2.2%) among the countries with extensive testing (USA's is 4.2%, case fatality rate of the seasonal flu is .1%). Korea got screwed in the beginning...

I can't understand how Fauci has kept his job to this date.