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This must be what men used to feel like. My mere physical presence is enough to terrify someone into running. No wonder they used to get drunk on it.
Bizarre description. Most men don't ever act or think like this.
Men are going to the hospital but so many doctors are men that there’s only a few useful female doctors left to treat everyone.
Is this deliberate bias, given the character's context, or a false assumption of fact? UK medical schools have had a 50:50 gender split since at least the mid-1980s.
I ask Amanda if she thinks she would have been treated differently if she were a man: seen as less hysterical, less anxious, more credible.
Not putting female scientists in a great light.
I need the internet to research and more importantly I’m about to run out of food.
Inconsistency of labour availability.
Without a cure, 10 per cent of the world’s men can produce 10 per cent of the number of babies they previously did.
Er, no.
Only 10 per cent of the five per cent will be immune.
No. The male offspring of immune men are more likely to be immune.
9 per cent of men their X chromosome
This makes it impossible for all women to be immune.
Thanks to their XX chromosomes, all women are safe.
No. 1 in 4 are not safe assuming normal recessive heterozygous inheritance.
luck
1 in 5 chance isn't luck, it's statistics.
‘It also explains why women are asymptomatic hosts,’
No, it doesn't.
personally looked at it under a microscope.
Can't see viral infections under an optical microscope.
There are still enough young women of child-bearing age to have a hope in hell of population recovery.
There has been no decrease in the number of fertile women.
chemical
Would need to be biological .
genetic markers for the Plague virus.
No, for immunity from the virus.
‘No, but, in my experience, the chances are high once you’ve had three of the same.’
No. Each conception has an equal chance of being either a boy or girl. Previous births don't influence this.
once you have three babies of the same sex, chances are you’ll continue producing children of the same sex.
For this nonsensical assertion to be true the current underlying genetic mechanisms for sexual reproduction in almost every non-asexually reproducing organism on Earth would have to be completely upended .
nurse.’
All GP practice nurses have a grade of 'Sister'.
female chromosome
There is no 'female only' chromosome. The Y chromosome is what makes a human male, otherwise they are female.
monkey
Chimps aren't monkeys.
A hundred per cent success rate.
Impossible to know this without a clinical trial in humans. Extremely unlikely for any vaccine to be 100% effective.
chromosomes.
Genes, not chromosomes. But vaccine wouldn't bypass "missing ones". There aren't any .
If those vaccines are of a sufficient standard,
Completely misses out on any safety and efficacy studies within a controlled clinical trial.
Our power supply is stable thanks to solar panels
Solar is a very variable source of electricity.
‘Eight million,’
This is lower than current typical, non-urgent flu vaccine production.
the pilot became ill on the flight.
But there's a co-pilot to cover this eventuality.
There is a huge degree of buffering in the Earth's weather systems. Even after completely stopping man-made emissions, it would take hundreds of years to make any appreciable impact on slowing planetary warming.
half the planet’s
Just 40% of the human population.
I took records of as much data as I could and handed in my notice
Er, no. Termination clauses are always in place with employment contracts to prevent this.
I took three of the female coders with me
Again, contractual clauses are usually in place to prevent employee poaching.
The US Government and the UK Government have almost complete control over who within those countries have children. Almost no baby is an accident now. We all have to get used to that idea.’
How do you control men and women having sex?
