Wow this article is straight from some horror flick. The part about avoiding dead bodies while searching for food in a bread factory heartbreaking.

Also car licensing and insurance. Makes it tough on poor ppl, they need to be exempted from any safety requirements that cost money.

Usually there's early warning signs. Like my wife and I spent $500 on our wedding and less than that on the engagement ring. It allowed us to spend big $$$ on our future house and vacations.

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My friend had the opposite issue where his ex-gf wanted some very extravagant rings/weddings so he broke it off.

Dang, this guy could afford a kid? He must be thanking his dad for the inheritance...

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When I first started working my current company, the PPO had a $0 deductible and $10 co-pay. Now the deductible is almost as much as the HDCP plan and the premium is 2-3X the HDCP plan.

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There's no set and fast rule on which is better because there's no consistency in the plans between companies. Really messed up system designed to lock you into an employer.

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I've never known a company where HR are the ones nixing the interview. If you had an onsite interview, I can't imagine HR being able to fail you unless you started spouting racist nonsense.

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Maybe you already were not gonna get the job and the HR rep was just going through the motions? Don't feel bad, this place probably wouldn't be a good fit if you have to worry about office politics from the first day.

There's also ppl with no PCP or health insurance who don't bother getting lab tests

School and church similar but restaurant, apartments, subways much less crowded in USA. Only NYC comes close, but you're right we should still see similar hotspots.

Even with no testing the hospitals should still show the same critical cases as Asia.

I wish there was more contact tracing to understand how this virus spread. Maybe the papers are still under peer review, love to understand this.

Those places are extremely crowded, subways, apartments, restaurants. Also they have a culture of eating out, so you could get it at lunch/dinner etc.

Than there's the usual places like church and school, where ppl will attend even if they're feeling sick.

Last time I checked if you have a master's degree from university in USA or specific categories of skills you can get permit to work there. However the salaries are TERRIBLE. Not worth it.

Where did you find the benchmark results about 20-30% less RT perf? That's really surprising, I think its half the RT perf.