JPKab

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by JPKab 5y ago
The White House verbally stated they wanted Spotify to take action. When a government tells a company to act, there is always an implicit "or else". That is defacto censorship.
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by JPKab 5y ago
I grew up same as you, and you took the words out of my mouth. People who grew up secular are completely unaware of how Southern Baptist in style all of this canceling and moralizing is. Like the church ladies, they turn moralizing into a
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by JPKab 5y ago
It's the guests. He's like Oprah in her peak: He's disarming, humble, and has a knack for getting even the stiffest guests to open up. And some of the most fascinating guests are people you've never heard of.
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by JPKab 5y ago
When I worked construction in my early 20s, I frequently had to drive various large trucks. I FUCKING LOVE the "cab over engine" design. The heightened visibility is everything. My favorite truck was an Isuzu model (don't r
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by JPKab 5y ago
Like any kid who grew up in Appalachia, I own firearms and a sweet compound bow, learned how to hunt when I was 9, caught my first fish when I was 4, and therefore have no need to "stock up on food." I grow cannabis and vegetable
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by JPKab 5y ago
I tested positive for COVID in February of 2021. I have natural immunity but I'm being treated like I'm a risk to fully vaccinated people around me. I think that might explain why I feel like I'm having my rights violated. P
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by JPKab 5y ago
Why does the federal government need to fund the training of doctors? They don't fund the training of software engineers considering that universities do a pretty poor job of preparing somebody for a position at a software company. T
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by JPKab 5y ago
When I worked in DoD intel in the past, I had to travel to multiple nations with extremely high rates of dangerous tropical disease. I took multiple vaccines for this purpose. At no point do I ever recall worrying about whether the local
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by JPKab 5y ago
I fully admit I've been harsh in this thread, and frankly I'm unhappy with myself for letting my emotions get the best of me. I appreciate your honesty and candor on your feelings on this subject. What I will state bluntly is this
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by JPKab 5y ago
The way you talk about the unvaccinated is telling. I'd like to propose a solution that I think you would really prefer: Let's make it really obvious who the unvaccinated are. I'm thinking we could maybe have some kind of ar
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by JPKab 5y ago
Care to back up any numbers with long COVID? Or am I again going to have to suffer with hand waving and zero quantitative analysis? Throughout this pandemic, measures were taken with a public health benefit in mind that was purely limited
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My wife is a kindergarten teacher. We face the "risk" on two fronts. Unlike many of her colleagues, she was unhappy with the obvious impeded ability to teach resulting from the school closures. A large percentage of her col
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by JPKab 5y ago
You can't open up more medical schools because the American Medical Association has lobbied for decades and use their accreditation authority to put a cap on the number of seats in med schools in the US. There's been virtually no
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by JPKab 5y ago
So what I'm about to write here is I want to emphasize just groaning and complaining from my brother. He recently moved just over the line to one of those suburbs of Portland in Washington State. He told me he was fed up with Oregon
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So he should foot the bill for private school because people like you don't understand basic statistics, or even bother to look at the data? With all due respect, there's a name for fear that is divorced from reality and not in p
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by JPKab 5y ago
Indeed. My twin brother lives just outside of PDX, and the schools were closed for a full year, then hybrid classes. His son was in kindergarten when it hit, just like my daughter. His son is severely delayed now. On top of all of that,
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by JPKab 5y ago
The US medical system is financially untenable due to the massive percentage of adults drinking sugary sodas with every meal, getting fat, and developing Type II diabetes. Guess we should let them die too, right? You are making an argument
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by JPKab 5y ago
General observation from reading YOUR comment - you must not have young kids at a key developmental age in primary school for if you did you'd realize how detrimental arbitrary, poorly-fitting, non-medical masks are to small children&
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by JPKab 5y ago
From a recent editorial from a Johns Hopkins professor addressing the CDC trying to whitewash their own failings in the study: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-cost-of-disparaging-na... "Yet the CDC spun the
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by JPKab 5y ago
This article breaks it down, and references a newer, larger N Oxford study using data from the British NHS. Agreed on it being certain age cohorts. My dad would be a lunatic to not be vaxxed. But a 20 year old who is healthy? https:&#x2
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by JPKab 5y ago
That's really awful to hear regarding Latin America. How is Columbia doing? Do you have any insights there?
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My wife is from a family of fiercely independent Filipino immigrants. She's always been super levelheaded. I lucked out with her. Her late father was a chemist, and her uncles are all practicing physicians. They were all universally
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by JPKab 5y ago
Regarding 7 year olds, you are grossly misinformed, but that's not your fault. The US Federal government is continuing in it's grand tradition of doubling down on bad science to save face of bureaucrats who made bad policy decisi
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by JPKab 5y ago
You're right, labeling people is a terrible thing to do. I'm just at a breaking point now, after 2 years of having the most anxiety and risk-averse among us gleefully demonize, censor, and shame those of us with heterodox opinions
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by JPKab 5y ago
Again, a category error: You are failing to differentiate between the two subgroups of unvaccinated people, the previously infected/unvaccinated, and the purely unvaccinated. Additionally, you are not doing any further subdivision on
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I completely agree with your comment and to help summarize why you are having to explain all of these things to these people, I suggest everyone on this thread read the following link to understand their error. Dividing groups of people up
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The severe outcomes are even more rare amongst prior-infected, unvaccinated people. I suggest you look up seroprevalence surveys. The bulk of COVID infections (barring mandatory and regular testing being extant in a given locality) go unde
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> Roughly speaking this is the difference between your risk of driving with no seat belt and no air bags (unvaccinated), no seat belt and no air bags but with a bicycle helmet (prior infection), seatbelt (vaccinated), and seatbelt and ai
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The assumption that excess deaths can be attributed to any single cause is simply not based on data and/or science. What is the age breakdown of these excess deaths? If the distribution doesn't mirror the age distribution of know
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by JPKab 5y ago
I saw that email. David Leonhart I believe, who is one of my preferred NYT journalists. Something that was conspicuously absent from the paragraph regarding the unvaccinated vs. the vaccinated paragraph preceding it: Risk stratification by

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