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Now you are being really obtuse, as if basing a measure on a universal constant is worse than a dead king’s foot. What do we use to ensure the length of that dead kings foot remains constant, a thousand year old stick?

Averaged to what, everyone is expendable except you?

England is metric, it's 5.78 M. Rather than trying to convert it, just find out how high your truck is in metres. Simple.

The only stats we have are 4,270,089 known deaths for 200,994,742 known cases. That's a 2.12% death rate. Anything else is just shit you make up.

No kidding. This would be the first thing in history that almost every government in the world has agreed on yet somehow it is a conspiracy.

It is still the largest demographic of the four you posted.

Florida hit a record 12,408 hospitalized with Covid today. Canada has less than 1000. Florida Covid patients are taking up 22.56% of total in-patient beds.

65 and older is Florida's largest age demographic.

I didn't know age was a choice.

You claim that more people were infected than were confirmed but reject the idea that more people could have also died than were confirmed As I said, a number that came out of your ass.

Still pulling that 99.98% number out of your ass I see.

Britain is metric, the US is the holdout.

It changed because it is only in the last 75 years or so that we have been able to accurately measure the speed of light and time to a degree that makes it more accurate than a rod. What would metric time be? The way we measure time is based on the earths rotation rate. To change it would also mean changing how we measure latitude and longitude.

Most of our lumber is sold in the US. Until that changes we will be using feet and inches. Interestingly the US auto industry now uses metric hardware. They have to if they want to have international markets.

The length of those bars will change with temperature and over a long period of time will change with erosion. The speed of light in a vacuum is finite. 454 grams is used for us dinosaurs who still relate to pounds. 454 grams equals 1.0009 lbs. Half a kilo or 500 grams would make much more sense. 1.14 L bottles of booze for the same reason because 1.14L equals 40 oz. The metric system also does things like link length, area and volume together. l litre equals 1000 cubic centimetres. On the other hand, 1 US gallon equals 231 cubic inches and 1 Imp gallon equals 277.419432 cubic inches. No relationship at all. 1 Hectare = 10,000 sq metres. 1 Acre= 43560.04 Sq ft. The only non metric measure we use that relates to any other measure is the nautical mile.

The metric system is used because everything is in multiples of ten. It was in intended to make things simpler and it does if you are brought up with it. The imperial system is just made up shit. The foot is the length of a long dead kings foot which for some reason they decided to divide into 12 inches instead of ten. And then they made a mile 5280 feet instead of 1000 or even 5000. Every other imperial measure came about in a similar archaic rambling way. I suppose you would still like to have pounds, shillings and pence as well.

The totals are the same as the January surge and growing.

Considering the average hospital stay for Covid is three weeks, they are pretty shitty numbers.

The DeathSantis effect. "Florida had over 7,400 confirmed Covid-19 admissions in the most recent seven-day window," a rate similar to what hospitals faced during the surge in early January, but not as much as seen during the summer 2020 wave. Bottom line: Florida has reported 22 percent of the nation's Covid cases over the last two weeks, but makes up only six percent of the US population, by far the largest disparity among the states. Florida ranks first in per capita Covid hospital admissions and second for child hospitalizations. Over the last week, it is second only to Louisiana in new cases per capita.

Hamilton suspects he has long Covid.

Putting a mask on your kid will do a lot more to protect other kids than it will yours. But hey, I thought masks didn't work.

Enjoy Covid.

Just as well because there is a good chance you will get it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/why-delta-variant-spreads-fast-covid-1.6120982

I think most people know the difference between a gallon and a litre. There are only three countries in the world that still use gallons. The US, Liberia and Myanmar.

How do parents protect unvaccinated children, lock them in their rooms?