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The land with no face masks(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by ColanR 6y ago|1 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
I checked the US version of that site just now - those batteries are really expensive compared to the cells inside.
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by ColanR 6y ago
To whomever flagged the sibling comment by throwaway_drt2: they were not being crude, they were referring to the cell site simulator called the Dirtbox. [1] Don't be so trigger-happy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by ColanR 6y ago
Don't you love it when people force their opinons on you, 'for your own good'?
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by ColanR 6y ago
> might solve the recirculation issues, no? No. Another half-baked 'solution' will cut the infection rate by some fraction of a percent, and we'll be right back where we were before: right here, asking why we aren't b
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by ColanR 6y ago
Yeah, I noticed and fixed the search.
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by ColanR 6y ago
To the other folks replying: I looked up the protests on ddg images, and about half of the protesters in those photos were wearing masks. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blm+protest+2020&iar=images&iax=im...
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by ColanR 6y ago
> Making sure everyone wears masks will, at the scale of the general population, reduce the infection rate by some noticable percent. I said that.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I have several (medical) doctors in my family. They were pretty clear from the beginning that what the WHO was saying was BS. They pretty much agreed with what you're relating; I don't think it's doctors in general who are
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by ColanR 6y ago
We probably aren't hearing about it because it's something we have less ability to protect against. I remember a popular comment here a while back mentioning that epidemeologists' job is partly public relations, trying to fig
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by ColanR 6y ago
I love reading that site.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I don't have a great understanding of the algorithms here, but I have a question. If I had some data encrypted with these tools, which I made public for multiple entities to process, is it possible for me to allow them to add data to t
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AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries(uk.reuters.com)
109 points by ColanR 6y ago|118 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
> It should not be this complicated to respect laws that just enforce minimal good practices. It's not necessarily the compliance that's the issue, it can also be figuring out how to comply. IANAL, and I can't guarantee
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by ColanR 6y ago
For everyone worried about these satellite's effect on astronomy, don't the new satellite launch capabilities that make "internet-from-space" suddenly feasible mean that telescopes could be more easily put in orbit too?
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by ColanR 6y ago
Any recommendations?
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by ColanR 6y ago
I'm really sorry, I linked the wrong article. The quote in my comment is from the abstract of this [1] study. It's a meta-analysis by a professor of epidemiology at Yale. He also wrote an op-ed that ran in Newsweek. [2] [1] ht
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by ColanR 6y ago
You're deriving way too much from an uninformative article. "Given the drugs by her parents" doesn't mean they were prescribed by her parents. Did the article say whether there was no doctor involved? Also. The girl had
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by ColanR 6y ago
The specific circumstances where the drugs are effective aren't being met. I didn't look up the details before. https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa093... . > Eviden
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by ColanR 6y ago
> So your argument is that because it works for your disease, it must work for covid. That's a strawman if I ever heard one.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Here's another: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa093... > Evidence about use of hydroxychloroquine alone, or of hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin in inpatients, is irre
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by ColanR 6y ago
That's because the clinical trials aren't studying hydroxychloroquine in conjunction with azithromycin, which is where the effect is noticable. They have to actually study the thing that was indicated to work, if they're goi
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by ColanR 6y ago
> > That's not what anyone is suggesting > ...and yet that's what people are doing. > Her mother, a nurse, and a man identified in the report as her father, a physician assistant, gave the girl azithromycin...The repor
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by ColanR 6y ago
Medicine is not a popularity contest. There's good evidence that it is actually beneficial; insofar as popularity is important, note that Ars is only describing an official position, not a consensus. Note also that most indications of
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by ColanR 6y ago
> no measurable benefit won't Then I guess you're not talking about hydroxychloroquine, because there is evidence of a reduction in mortality rate. https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8&#
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by ColanR 6y ago
> I don't see why you would even mention it Because empirical results trump theory. I think you vastly overestimate how much we actually understand about the human body.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I'd love to hear about the better ones.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. You're making a reasonable observation. Seems like when it comes to big drug manufacturers, suddenly big business and overgrown capitalists can do no wrong.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> fighting medical quackery and disinformation I would rather we fight the people who are preventing medical discussions from taking place. If you want to call the use of hydroxychloroquine "quackery" and "disinformation&
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by ColanR 6y ago
> dangerous to take unsupervised That's not what anyone is suggesting, and it seems disingenuous for you to suggest that it is. The drug is well-known, and it's reasonable to attempt its use when there's the potential for

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