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I guess this is personal for them, since they both suffered from polio as children and are of the generation that would have understood how devastating diseases

I guess this is personal for them, since they both suffered from polio as children and are of the generation that would have understood how devastating diseases could be and how miraculous a vaccine can be. Also it helps that they control their own catalog.

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chromakode 5y ago
Young does not have complete ownership of his catalog. He sold a 50% stake earlier this year. He needed to ask Warner Bros. to do it: https://fortune.com/2022/01/27/neil-young-couldnt-remove-music-from-spotify-alone-music-label-heres-why/ https://fortune.com/2022/01/27/neil-young-couldnt-remove-mus...
- simlevesque 5y ago
  This reads like Warner Bros has an interest in tanking Spotify.
  - sva_ 5y ago
    Or they just realized the publicity could get them to sell more albums.
    - brtkdotse 5y ago
      “Sell more albums”? I don’t even know where to buy albums anymore
      - gnuj3 5y ago
        Well, that’s just sad if young people dont know where to buy albums. I would be embarrassed to admit that. Not everyone had gone to rent all their stuff just yet.
        brtkdotse 5y ago
        Thanks for assuming I’m young, I actually middle aged :)
  - rkk3 5y ago
    The article is from CNN.com and the cable infotainment networks and traditional media have a very strong interest in tanking alternative distribution channels for content.
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- spacedcowboy 5y ago
  That's cool. I wonder why the school I send my kid to keeps on sending these emails that my kid's cohort has someone who tested positive then, and I have to test him 5 days afterwards to see if he has to stay away. Must be all this fake news[1] I hear is all the rage these days... [1] https://www.newsweek.com/eighth-child-under-10-dies-covid-19-virginia-1673935 https://www.newsweek.com/eighth-child-under-10-dies-covid-19... [edit for grammar]
  - Method-X 5y ago
    Kids can get COVID but it’s no worse than a mild cold for them. This has been known for a very long time and is not controversial.
    - EdSharkey 5y ago
      Is this comment unassailable? Does it completely invalidate grandparent? How dangerous is it culturally if the grandparent's assumptions and opinions are completely invalid?? I'm being serious, this is a culture-wide powder keg ready to explode!
    - spacedcowboy 5y ago
      There is a literal link to kids dying of covid in my post you responded to. Covid is highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while). And, however unlikely, with a sufficiently large population of kids being infected, there are some who will pay the ultimate price, it is a potentially lethal disease after all - and that utterly sucks if you're one of those kids' parents; I wonder how they feel, when people say "it's no worse than a mild cold for them", looking at their dead child one last time before burying him/her.
josephcsible 5y ago
This is a false analogy, because COVID isn't nearly as dangerous as polio, especially to children, and the COVID vaccines aren't nearly as effective as the polio vaccines.
- xref 5y ago
  Uh, looking at recent mortality rates COVID is much more dangerous than polio. Luckily people don’t have to pick one vaccine, they can have both.
- sfteus 5y ago
  Polio only resulted in paralysis in ~0.5% of cases. The CFR for paralytic polio for children was around 2-5%, or 5-10% for all age groups. That would put the CFR for all polio cases at around 0.0175% for children, and 0.0375% overall. Best I can find right now, there have been roughly 750 deaths of children in the US from COVID resulting from roughly 9.335 million cases, for a CFR of roughly 0.008%, slightly under half that of polio for the same age group. However, CFR overall is roughly 1.189% in the US for all age groups currently (879,971 deaths/74,037,216 cases), over 100x the rate of polio for all age groups. That's not including long term effects from COVID with people having scarred lungs / damaged organs, new research indicating increased diabetes rates in children who have had COVID, new research finding long term micro blood clots even in asymptomatic cases, etc.

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chromakode 5y ago

Young does not have complete ownership of his catalog. He sold a 50% stake earlier this year. He needed to ask Warner Bros. to do it: https://fortune.com/2022/01/27/neil-young-couldnt-remove-music-from-spotify-alone-music-label-heres-why/ https://fortune.com/2022/01/27/neil-young-couldnt-remove-mus...

simlevesque 5y ago
This reads like Warner Bros has an interest in tanking Spotify.
- sva_ 5y ago
  Or they just realized the publicity could get them to sell more albums.
  - brtkdotse 5y ago
    “Sell more albums”? I don’t even know where to buy albums anymore
    - gnuj3 5y ago
      Well, that’s just sad if young people dont know where to buy albums. I would be embarrassed to admit that. Not everyone had gone to rent all their stuff just yet.
      - brtkdotse 5y ago
        Thanks for assuming I’m young, I actually middle aged :)
- rkk3 5y ago
  The article is from CNN.com and the cable infotainment networks and traditional media have a very strong interest in tanking alternative distribution channels for content.

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icare_1er 5y ago

spacedcowboy 5y ago
That's cool. I wonder why the school I send my kid to keeps on sending these emails that my kid's cohort has someone who tested positive then, and I have to test him 5 days afterwards to see if he has to stay away. Must be all this fake news[1] I hear is all the rage these days... [1] https://www.newsweek.com/eighth-child-under-10-dies-covid-19-virginia-1673935 https://www.newsweek.com/eighth-child-under-10-dies-covid-19... [edit for grammar]
- Method-X 5y ago
  Kids can get COVID but it’s no worse than a mild cold for them. This has been known for a very long time and is not controversial.
  - EdSharkey 5y ago
    Is this comment unassailable? Does it completely invalidate grandparent? How dangerous is it culturally if the grandparent's assumptions and opinions are completely invalid?? I'm being serious, this is a culture-wide powder keg ready to explode!
  - spacedcowboy 5y ago
    There is a literal link to kids dying of covid in my post you responded to. Covid is highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while). And, however unlikely, with a sufficiently large population of kids being infected, there are some who will pay the ultimate price, it is a potentially lethal disease after all - and that utterly sucks if you're one of those kids' parents; I wonder how they feel, when people say "it's no worse than a mild cold for them", looking at their dead child one last time before burying him/her.

josephcsible 5y ago

This is a false analogy, because COVID isn't nearly as dangerous as polio, especially to children, and the COVID vaccines aren't nearly as effective as the polio vaccines.

xref 5y ago
Uh, looking at recent mortality rates COVID is much more dangerous than polio. Luckily people don’t have to pick one vaccine, they can have both.
sfteus 5y ago
Polio only resulted in paralysis in ~0.5% of cases. The CFR for paralytic polio for children was around 2-5%, or 5-10% for all age groups. That would put the CFR for all polio cases at around 0.0175% for children, and 0.0375% overall. Best I can find right now, there have been roughly 750 deaths of children in the US from COVID resulting from roughly 9.335 million cases, for a CFR of roughly 0.008%, slightly under half that of polio for the same age group. However, CFR overall is roughly 1.189% in the US for all age groups currently (879,971 deaths/74,037,216 cases), over 100x the rate of polio for all age groups. That's not including long term effects from COVID with people having scarred lungs / damaged organs, new research indicating increased diabetes rates in children who have had COVID, new research finding long term micro blood clots even in asymptomatic cases, etc.