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I'm talking in terms of grief, and sounds like you are talking productive units. I was considering Fermi's words - he said something along the line that he kno
by HarryHirsch 3y ago
I'm talking in terms of grief, and sounds like you are talking productive units.
I was considering Fermi's words - he said something along the line that he knows he is going to die and all his experiences are going to die with him, and he found that incomprehensible. What I'm saying is that adults have friends and are breadwinners, the impact of an adult dying on the world is so much greater than the loss of a young child.
a pre-covid example of how anti-vax misinformation kills
The other thing - the Wakefield/MMR story: the self-serving fraud published his fake study in 1998 and it has been debunked ever since. The measles vaccing came to market in 1963, its safety profile is known. Anyone who loses their child over a skipped measles vaccine, that's a case of "fuck around and find out". Also, measles are a contagious disease, anyone nearby who has HIV, an organ transplant, is of advanced age or simple was unlucky enough for their measles vaccine not to take is at risk as well. And there is sequelae, especially sclerotizing panencephalitis, incidence 0.1 % or thereabouts.
Skaphismos is too good for Wakefield.
Not sure who "the government" is where you are
The government of the US has declared the Covid emergency over. No mask mandates, no ventilation standards, no paid sick leave. I'm lucky enough to have a single-occupancy office and work in a well-ventilated environment. Many others are not, and meanwhile you hear news like hospital facilities on Okinawa overflowing because of Covid combined with other respiratory diseases (there's good reason to believe that Covid affects the immune system).
- wahnfrieden 3y ago> the impact of an adult dying on the world is so much greater than the loss of a young child just a very strange thing to take for granted in conversation. your writing clarity suffers from its provocativeness even if unintentional