Recent content by Jetex Jim

My local village garage refused to do the summer/winter tyre swop for me. He didn't want to touch a Tesla. Maybe someone told him a special tool was needed to lift the car up.

With all these companies locked down there's no doubt that there'll be at least a short term hit to economy. But with all the financing packages and emergency spending there'll be a corresponding, deficit financed, push back. There may be some technological advances as engineers start getting...

Yes it does and is, since yesterday. But the more enlightened ones have been voluntarily restricting social contact (following government advice) from the previous Saturday.

And you are engaged in another guessing game. And here there's no possibility of any stats coming along to prove/disprove it. The strategy countries are adopting is the only one that seems to have a chance of working, the Wuhan strategy. Play for time and try and suppress the curve until a...

Yes, deaths are still very low in Germany, less than a 100 for almost 25000 recorded infections. Possibly related to the very high ratio of ICU to population. Yes, people are voluntarily staying in doors and have been avoiding unnecessary social contact. But this is Germany. Do you imagine...

And let's not forget, the option to do nothing always has a certain appeal. But the people who are advocating let it rip seem to be the younger crowd, the ones who possibly see themselves as being immune. Fair enough, we all make choices based on our own personal circumstances (regardless of...

I hope you are right but I think its a little early to be relaxing. New York is ahead of the rest of the USA, for sure, in terms of the progress of the epidemic.

Do you think that the USA is handling things more or less competently than Italy and Spain?

Interesting. Where did you find the numbers for the testing that Germany is doing?

People struggle to get their heads around exponential growth curves. The 22,000 cases that the USA has might not seem too unremarkable. Italy has almost 54,000detected cases and the USA has a much larger population. But where on the growth curve is the USA? Currently the 'doubling' interval...

That's amusing. I think the kids must have been watching a Whitehouse press briefing.

Unfortunately economies are like control systems with too much positive feedback (which is why they oscillate) Once they get a large step input in whatever direction positive feedback reinforces it. There's a time constant that will influence the speed of normal recovery. Governments will need...

Truly amazing to watch some of those kids, some of them obese, acting as though they are immune. Do they not realise their health is already compromised by their obesity?

An interesting report from NPR Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows

The Pandemic Ventilator I don't know if this has been seen already. It gives a pretty good look at what goes into a ventilator. (not too much).