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I'm not indicting the entire West. I'm indicting certain people in the West that post silly almost conspiracy style stuff against obvious solutions to a deadly
by yyyk 6y ago
I'm not indicting the entire West. I'm indicting certain people in the West that post silly almost conspiracy style stuff against obvious solutions to a deadly disease. There's an obvious balance here, and it's not on the 'we don't know how but something might happen' side. How about we all stop posting on HN? After all, posting might change magnetic fields which might change a butterfly's path which could cause a deadly hurricane?
P.S. We knew even at the time DDT was poisonous to life, and that draining swamps kills ecosystems. What changed wasn't so much our knowledge, but the situation (the West had gotten rid of many deadly diseases by that time, mosquitoes had started to develop resistance).
- throwanem 6y agoWell, you're making not posting on HN any more look like an appealing option, I'll give you that much.
- jschwartzi 6y agoI find your appeal to hyperbole pretty distasteful. Please be civil and argue from the facts of the situation. There's a huge chasm of difference between what GP is saying and the words you're putting in their mouth.
- yyyk 6y agoWhat am I missing? The current situation is that many people needlessly die. The current approaches don't work well enough. Various radical approaches to fixing that have been investigated and tested to a significant degree. Now given the cost, testing and various answers to the objections, there comes the time the objections have to put a bit more meat and go beyond people have screwed up before, and something might happen.