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Went out and checked around the local Wally World.  Still out of toilet paper.  Oh, they do have single ply, but such is an abomination before God(s).  Still haven't gotten into the habit of making lists for critical items, will need to pick up coffee filters when I head out today to do deliveries.   

Good week for walking...over thirty miles over 60,000 steps.

Screed:

I answered three questions yesterday.

he first was Isma's simple statistics question.  Easy to answer, could sort it out easily, Averaging a frequency distribution.  Nice question.  Easy answer, easy formula, always works.  

Second question was from Moishe: simply put, how do you design a peptide that might basically give you an antibody test for the Rona.  Moishe kind of got an extra grind with the Rona right now, seeing as he lost 30 lb in 10 days fighting off the bitch.  He's a little irritated right now and is throwing some money at it.  Good question, but harder than the first one.  Had to go out a-searching (1) but did find something interesting that IgG may very well find interesting.  We'll see?  There isn't an answer for this, there is just a best guess and you have to go fishing and hope for the best.  We will have to see how 470  TEIYQAGSTPCNGVEGFNCYFPLQS  494 works out.

The last question was the toughie. The last one came from an anonymous person on the internet

 

Is it immoral to view human workers as means versus an end – as means to an economic recovery?

Which is correct, a or b?

a) The desired end with regard to a human worker, is an opportunity to make a decent living due to the economy.

b) The desired end is an economy that benefits the wealthy, where workers are a means to that end.

If you want to know what I think, a is not correct.

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Now, this is tough one.  What you are talking about is the nature of Anglo-American capitalism itself.  was talking about whether or not how the help is going out Mike is really irritated that the money is going through rich people to make them richer, trickle down is still a simple statement of fact to the right.  You know truth of the matter is he's right.   but unfortunately the ecology/economic space we live is set up that way and we are seeing if the false edifice erected by Reagan will hold.  But I tend to look at the other side of the equation. 

There are 16 million people out of work.  How do we get them back to work so that they can eat and have a warm place to sleep?  there's probably more than 30 million out of work from what I'm seeing.   the the unemployment systems and states are breaking down and people aren't getting through we're probably going to surge out: I'm thinking 25 to 30 million job losses.  We have to get them back to work because I know these folks and I know that if they were just barely making it with a job, they most certainly aren't going to make it without one.  The way that the government has been villianized since Ronnie Raygun has crippled their ability to react.  And no, it isn't just the current fuckwad in chief that has done this, the Reagans, the Bushes, the Clintons, and the Obama's built this oligarchy.  Fuckwad just ran it into a wall just prior to it going off the cliff anyway.

Dude that's the depression in my mind, this is a generational event.  How do we get them back to work?  Yes you're absolutely right this is just the first throw and: yep they did it wrong.  I know and have been speaking of a whole bunch of things that went wrong.  But there's a whole bunch out there that has to play out and the end result may well be some smoking rubble somewhere.   but the truth of the matter is there's nothing  that no one on either the right or the left want to mention.  There aren't a whole bunch of options left and nobody wants to admit the fact that this is going to leave a f****** mark. 

(1)  I.M. Ibrahim, D.H. Abdelmalek and M.E. Elshahat et al., COVID-19 spike-host cell receptor GRP78 binding site prediction, Journal of Infection,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.02.026