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by Lewton 7y ago
Seriously. How is it possible to still be ignorant about the (up to) 2 week asymptomatic incubation period? This is the entire reason why the virus is so dangerous! And where did OP mention anything about masks protecting the carrier from i
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Where I live it has been public policy to only recommend the flu shot to at risk groups. Never really gave it much thought before. Now I strongly disagree with the policy
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I agree, this event has also opened my eyes to how important the flu shot is
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Couldn't we just vaccinate people with all the known flu vaccines we have now to get the same result?
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In an ideal world you wouldn't even have to go that far. Just say that anyone born before 2020 is not allowed to have sex with anyone born in 2020 or later
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by Lewton 7y ago
The one you were linking to was probably flagged for the flamebaiting title Which is great, because misleading titles is one of the bigger problems here on HN, made worse by 90% of people not reading anything but the title and the comments
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by Lewton 7y ago
It's really depressing looking at how Sweden is handling it when sitting in Denmark. The contrast is pretty extreme Sweden seem to be prioritizing the economy heavily. Comparing the two responses is going to be interesting once this al
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by Lewton 7y ago
I didn’t say anything about comparing the US to Europe? I was explicitly saying to keep it in mind when comparing the numbers from the US to Italy!
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by Lewton 7y ago
"Beginning" might be the wrong term, as it's a bit into the beginning that it starts to make a difference. Local saturation happens fairly quickly. Having 100 infected in one place is very much different to having 1 infection
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by Lewton 7y ago
You have to bear in mind when doing any analysis of this that you shouldn’t treat the US as one country when comparing to Italy. The number of distinct outbreaks happening at once makes a big difference in the steepness of the curve in the
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Amount of people tested, age of people infected and time So far the people infected skews fairly young And the pandemic took hold around Tuesday and it takes about a week for hospitalization to be required in the severe cases
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by Lewton 7y ago
It’s amazing that anyone can still be in doubt about drastic measures being necessary when we have Italy as an example of what can happen
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What does that have to do with the US's testing capability per capita compared to other countries?
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.... The raw materials for doing these tests scale linearly with population too. It's just RNA sequencing, it can be done at any university using standard equipment and materials
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if you have the symptoms for the cold, and don't have the symptoms for covid-19, then why would they test you?
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The ability to test for this scales linearly with number of people...
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by Lewton 7y ago
Do you honestly think that a country would close down the government if it was "just another flu"? Really? The population has immunization to the flu, it doesn't spread that quickly. (It spreads quickly, but not -that- quickl
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by Lewton 7y ago
On a side note, I'm from Denmark and I'm reading the international news, the decree that the danish government made last night is being framed as "closing all schools". Which is massively underselling it. Every governmen
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by Lewton 7y ago
It seems like you're really underestimating the severity of the situation I implore you to read up on what the situation in Italy is like at this moment, and to look into why the Danish government just declared Denmark in lockdown mode
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by Lewton 7y ago
Giving people more common sense is not one of the tools we have available in our toolbox
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> No, panic is making it much more difficult to implement counter measures. Here in Denmark, where we're seeing an outbreak take hold, it's the EXACT opposite. People are going out even though they have been told to self-quaran
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by Lewton 7y ago
What does rush-job and game balance issues have to do with the game being a commercial failure?
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I use Anki for that all the time There’s a “cram seen cards” feature under custom study that’ll just give you a temporary brand new deck you can run through in random order
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by Lewton 7y ago
Linking to an article about a waymo car being hit by a car in a side collision seems pretty disingenuous when comparing to the Tesla accidents that people usually talk about
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by Lewton 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele%E2%80%93Keating_experim...
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by Lewton 7y ago
Facebook has my phone number. I have never given facebook my phone number. The only reason I know that they have my phone number, is because a couple of years back they decided that getting me to enable two-factor auth would be much easier
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by Lewton 7y ago
It doesn't matter what facebook considers "your data" when it comes to GDPR
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“You can use a ridiculous argument for many things.” Yes that’s actually the entire point of this A lot of commenters seem to be missing the fact that this is a response to ridiculous arguments being used in winning court cases
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by Lewton 7y ago
> Copyright depends on copying Copyright claims have been won by arguing the song was so widely available that it’s unreasonable to assume the defendant did not have access to it, which is why they’re trying to spread access to this as f
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by Lewton 7y ago
This really needs to be at the top, as it answers a lot of the criticisms found here on HN

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