Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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LANL already has some work on the including a recent paper saying the infection rate is higher than what most people think. I am not sure what more LANL or LLNL could add beyond the already current modeling, all of which looks grim.
On the other hand it is interesting to see that the big news in MSM is Bernie Sanders, diversity, and sexist jokes from Bloomberg, no one really seems to care about the coronaries even though WHO is saying the "window to contain this is quickly closings". Seems like we will have more relevant things to worry about than stop and frisk.
Starting to spread, just a matter of time until some one of the labs gets, particularly with all the travel and the number of people
moving though.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v1.full.pdf+html
With all the travel that people do at the labs and all the visitors from all over the world how long do you think it will be before it hits the labs? It could really get going at LANL since everybody goes to the same stores ect.
Rumor is that someone at LLNL just tested positive for the virus. I guess it has to start sometime.