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by NoPie 5y ago
But drug overdose rates seem to have increased, so the fact that suicide rates are flat doesn't tell us much. Suicide is relative very rare. Even antidepresant drug trials find it very difficult to establish if they increase suicidalit
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by NoPie 5y ago
Sweden still had their process to change the laws and even constitution if the lawmakers and citizens so desired. They didn't, so it means that the recommendations by Tegnell at least had some effect. QALY (and in respectively human li
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by NoPie 5y ago
Yes, if lockdowns are too restrictive and barely make any difference, then we should stop demanding them. People smoke, drink alcohol and eat junk food would never accept the level of restrictions we had with lockdowns. One thing is to put
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by NoPie 5y ago
Even in Eastern Europe currently most HIV transmissions happen with heterosexuals. I was surprised to learn that in the Western countries it is mostly spread by MSM (men having sex with men) and IDU (intravenous drug use).
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by NoPie 5y ago
My point is that I would have supported faster vaccine development that by now everybody in the world would be twice vaccinated and possibly with a booster jab developed for delta variant specifically. Somehow everybody responding to my pos
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by NoPie 5y ago
There will be more than 10000 who will die prematurely due to obesity, smoking and alcohol use every year. Strick measures would definitely reduce these numbers considerably. I wonder why we don't implement them?
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by NoPie 5y ago
I can get HIV simply in my job, by accidentally jabbing myself with a needle that I used to vaccinate someone with HIV positive status. My pharmacy has a lot of heroin users (because we provide methadone service) therefore the risk is more
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by NoPie 5y ago
HIV also would be non-existent if everybody stopped reusing needles when injecting drugs and used condoms with anal or vaginal sex. I think Afganistan has very low HIV prevalence. Gays and injectable drug users are thrown from rooftops and
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by NoPie 5y ago
D. Never. Lockdowns are not effective against covid. Even Australia failed them now. I would a) increase hospital capacity, b) ensure better ventilation, c) promote work from home, d) encourage people to meet more outdoors, e) start vaccine
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by NoPie 5y ago
It is not comparable at all. In this example NAC was given intravenously, at very high doses to treat paracetamol overdose which is deadly. It is unlikely that such high concentrations could be absorbed from oral intake. You can kill a pers
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by NoPie 5y ago
Except it turned out that doing nothing was comparable to lockdowns and herd immunity could not be reached even with vaccines. GBD might not have helped but it wouldn't have hurt and potentially could have helped things a lot. Instead
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by NoPie 5y ago
The comment in the rational wiki supporting inclusion of Levitt says that wikipedia includes him. It is not correct now as wikipedia has removed him. GBD was never about letting the virus spread unchecked but to be more targeted. This appro
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by NoPie 5y ago
> It was over 10% of all deaths. With vaccines it will be less than 1% which is not much. Yearly variations can be easily 10% for any other cause.
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by NoPie 5y ago
Antibodies can be passed from mother to child but they will last limited time only. The child's adaptive immune system will need to be challenged with antigens (virus or vaccine) to get more permanent immunity.
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by NoPie 5y ago
Just like Afganistan, zero covid has no endgame. I don't know, maybe they are still vaccinating their risk groups, so it makes sense. But at one point in future they will have to open the borders and accept the inevitable.
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by NoPie 5y ago
Michael Levitt is not listed in Wikipedia. Looking at talk pages it seems that someone with agenda added him on wikipedia, then asked him to be added to rationalwiki too. Wikipedia removed him because “citations needed”. Clearly someone wit
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by NoPie 5y ago
So we just need to fix Israel-Palestine conflict first and then zero covid can be achieved? Not.
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by NoPie 5y ago
Hepatitis C is spread primarily by blood-to-blood contact. Treatments exists and are effective. Whereas covid is very infectious, can spread by air, no good treatments exists and vaccines are good but does not fully prevent infection and sp
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by NoPie 5y ago
The fact that Israel vaccinated and failed to achieve zero covid means that the author is right. Israel doesn't need another lockdown. They just need to accept that cases will not go to zero. Vaccines help greatly reducing deaths and s
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by NoPie 5y ago
India is a very bad counterexample. 1) Think tank estimates of 10-fold higher mortality than official should be taken with a grain of salt. 2) It is a poor country with many problems – corruption (they failed to deliver oxygen cylinders to
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by NoPie 5y ago
It is actually correct. US had <2000 covid deaths per million, i.e., 0.2% which is about 2 people from 1000. Most people overestimate death rate by a factor of 10.
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by NoPie 5y ago
Currently it means that we don't have enough information to say one way or another. Being wrong means being convinced that it happened or not. It is wrong position because we don't have enough information and no reasonable positio
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by NoPie 5y ago
But then it doesn't make sense to talk about R0 of a specific delta variant at all because that R0 for delta will be different for different seasons, different countries, even different cities etc. Instead you could say current R0 in L
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by NoPie 5y ago
Stop spreading fake news. The article already mentions it that it is not what happened but the title is still misleading.
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by NoPie 5y ago
Neeva was not available for me in Europe. Is it available in Australia at all?
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by NoPie 5y ago
There is no difference. Maybe the difference is that's how you grow your vegies when you have very little resources.
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by NoPie 5y ago
If they are hard to find and are mostly closed groups, then why bother banning them? What's the point?
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by NoPie 5y ago
Thanks, I was looking for this.
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by NoPie 5y ago
I don't think this has aged well. Theoretically it was an interesting idea but now we see that even in Israel where a big proportion of young people are now vaccinated, there still can be a great number of new covid cases. Fortunately
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by NoPie 5y ago
It seems strange. The most expensive vaccine is Pfizer and it costs about 30 euros. A doctor administering vaccine could charge maybe another €30. Of course, you could find a private clinic or something which charges €150 but then why menti

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