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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>risks splitting the country into a two-tier system and hastening the demise of the NHS. You mean, something like the rest of Europe has? Sign me up!
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Controversial opinion: Social care services are a way to paper over cultural and societal issues that will inevitably out-grow the funding used to do so. We're about to discover the true depth of our societal issues, now that we'v
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
Not forgetting the obvious problems with turning your entire population into "bubble people". I'm not very excited about the Scarlet Fever outbreak here in the UK, as I have two small kids of my own.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
What's worse than anecdotes is 3rd-hand anecdotes. I've heard so much about "those with Covid corpses", but have yet to hear from them. I'm sure they exist, but there are way fewer of them than people seem to think.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
There are rather fewer of these people (in fact, I haven't heard from any of them), than people who have had to tell their children they have to stay inside due to the horrible virus stalking outside.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
It is - like everything else, our response to Covid has just accelerated anything that was already in decline. The best we can hope for is a well-managed transition to a hybrid healthcare system that all of the other sensible countries use.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
What is sensible, about banning a particular journey type for a transport sector that produces even smaller CO2 emissions, and has better fuel economy per passenger seat than (for example) buses and SUVs?
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
If you really want to reduce CO2 emissions, you need to ban cars, buses, and SUVs before you address planes. https://truecostblog.com/2010/05/27/fuel-efficiency-modes-of... Flippancy aside, in most cases the
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
If you really want to reduce CO2 emissions, you need to ban cars, buses, and SUVs before you address planes. https://truecostblog.com/2010/05/27/fuel-efficiency-modes-of... Flippancy aside, in most cases the
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>unable to share the moment on social media. Good. Share the moment with the people next to you! I wonder if 5G will be a step too far - it requires a huge amount of extra infrastructure to work properly, and telcos will be reluctant to
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>Russian troll farms .... increased politicization. The two are linked. Those who wish to see Western culture fail, just want us at each others' throats. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kvvz3/russian-
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
I'd rather live in a world where raising certain questions is seen as "bad faith", than a world where the experts have decided that certain topics are "too important" to be discussed. Also - if your point of view is
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
It's so true. The only people sad about Twitter's current state, are the journalists who (I assume) felt powerful and knowledgable thanks to constant scrolling.
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
I'd rather live in a world where raising certain questions is seen as "bad faith", than a world where the experts have decided that certain topics are "too important" to be discussed. Also - if your point of view is
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>Russia should have paid attention to how much more effective economic and asymmetric warfare is compared to kinetic warfare I am 100% sure that Russian state-sponsored trolls are largely responsible for the current state of the "cu
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
It's really easy to simulate. Just have a child or two!
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>Wales medicine is wonderful and can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth What? I don't know where you ended up in Wales, but I live in a regular, city-like part of Wales and I can tell you that the he
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
You never heard of post-viral chronic fatigue?
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
I hate football, but have been very excited for this World Cup for a while. It has not disappointed. Only a handful of games have been played, and major world groups have truly been brought together. Ancient, intolerant cultures, hypocritic
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by 543g43g43 4y ago
>talk to any of Qatari women It'll be hard to get their unbiased opinion with their male guardian permanently present.