So you received your degree under Operation Bootstrap...well that was before the 80s then...and you must be an older person than me for sure if you don't mind me saying so. You must be in your 70s.
Yep. Spent a lifetime in biology.
And then I would ask if what you studied actually gives you crucial insight into the composition and nature of this corona-type virus.
I'm not a virologist, but I did get a degree in microbiology, and I've done graduate work in immunology. What would you like to know? Perhaps I can help.
You see, getting a USC degree by extension as you said you did usually does not involve any lab work whatsoever, and I may be wrong.
Yep. You see, most of the courses required a paper. And of course, being about living systems, the only way to do that was to go out and take a look. So, lots of field work. If you were over on the management side, you'd probably never have to do any lab or field work whatever. I had to do a little of that, of course; I had a team of three other guys who did a queuing simulation to get the most efficient way to get all troops immunized against influenza.
One that was kind of interesting was a dynamic programming model to find the best way to use traditional methods and insecticide to reduce mosquito populations. Being in an area with lots of marshy land, it was a natural to get information on what needed to go into the model.
One that didn't require field work was a 2-predator model for predator prey interactions with the Volterra-Latke equation. That ended rather unsatisfactorily; tiny changes in the initial state would produce huge variations in the model. Later, I read Feigenbaum's work, and that all became clear. The numbers sorted out pretty much the way his constant predicts.
Was your sponsor AFIT/ Civilian programs, out of Wright Patterson OH or by by some other source? Were you a Missileer or just an airman stationed with a a non-medical AFSC using these same USC extension programs?
None of those things. Can you guess why?
You see Yehren, usually people that have to tell folks they know what they are talking about and concurrently having to tell folks several times they have formal credentials to prove it, makes me very uneasy and an instant high red flag is raised up for me.
As you have seen, I do know what I'm talking about. For two reasons. First, anyone with a degree in any sort of microbiology has to take some work in epidemiology. Second, if you actually work in biology, you have to keep reading; my Bergey's Manual is from 1978 and it's pretty much unusable now. You have to keep track of things.
And third, I also know where to look in journals to get up to date on these things. It's not just Pub Med and Google Scholar.
And you could be one of these people that are not genuine and are just winging it.
Feel free to ask a question. You might get lucky. My last two decades in industry, I worked as an ergonomist. (Systems Safety was a pretty big deal, back then). So I didn't keep up as much as I might have. What would you like to know?
You can ask me about my background if you wish. No problems mate. Shoot away...
I was never impressed with credentials. I once knew a body repairman who was remarkably competent to discuss evolutionary theory. So if you can keep up, I don't care where you got the knowledge. If you want to share, lay it out. If not, no problem.
Up to you of course, although I'm do wish you were more optimistic though on this subject at hand.
It's going to be bad. Worse than it is now, for maybe 10 days to 2 weeks. And longer than that, for some places that have yet to see the curve go exponential. Notice that even Trump now admits it. You'd have to be a complete ignoramus to miss that now. The good news, is that the rate of increase seems to be slowing a bit. But that was true a week ago, when I suggested that it might turn out better than originally thought. Didn't turn out that way. So I could be wrong.
You seem very bent on condemning specific people with this virus issue with a broad brush.
I have very specific criticisms for people who were telling us it was "contained" and would disappear one day like a "miracle." You can't spin a pandemic, and attempts to do so will cost thousands of lives. That's the reality.
That also raises a concern about your genuine motivation and reasoning...
Notice that things are going the way I said they would. Notice things aren't going the way Donald Trump said they would. Reality matters.
Can I ask you if you are Christian and know the Lord in your life?
Do you often insult people pointlessly? All you have to do is look below my avatar. If you were a Christian, I would think you would be able to see it just from my comments on scripture. What did you hope to gain by this kind of foolishness?
Do you actually know what it means to know the Lord in your life? Your question suggests that you do not.