NovaJehovah

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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
All the "long covid" stuff is essentially fear mongering. There's no science behind it. The implication is that everyone should be terrified, stay home as much as possible, and wear masks as long as there's any chance
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
That didn't stop thousands of businesses from being closed. But regardless, the narrative is just as important. After some threshold of vaccine distribution, people need to be convinced that it's ok to return to normal life, and t
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
It's generally a political challenge for a free society to get the power and the megaphones back from the people they were given to during a crisis. After an acute terrorism threat ends, it's hard to get power back from the milita
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
Fair enough when you put it that way :)
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
Well obviously it would be great if they significantly reduce transmission as well. But even if they don't, vaccines could still effectively end the pandemic if they reduce severity enough. It's stupid to imply that drastically re
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
True. But if you make the disease not deadly at all, then no one dies, regardless of how transmissible it is.
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
Lockdowns in the US are theater. Because government can't do much to stop the main driver of the epidemic--people meeting friends and relatives behind closed doors--they ban a bunch of stuff that makes very little difference.
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
Why is that more interesting? Reducing severity is just as important as reducing transmission, if not more important. If we could sufficiently reduce (or eliminate) severe cases and deaths, it wouldn't matter how contagious it was. C
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
Getting in better shape did make it easier, but I think just being naked around others and seeing that no one really cares that much what your body looks like is the more important ingredient. I guess it's a form of de-conditioning. We
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
You may be correct, but since we are dealing with long tail events, I really doubt that we have anywhere close to enough data to make statistically significant empirical statements about bias. You are almost certainly being results-oriented
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
I wonder how these kinds of dreams are affected by dealing with the underlying anxieties. I remember having the "naked in public" dream in the past. I've also had a fair amount of body shame for most of my life. But after get
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
I think it's mainly been an experiment in how much the average person will limit their own pursuit of happiness for the sake of lowering the mortality risk of others. The answer appears to be: to some extent, but there are limits. And
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
Thanks for the correction. I didn't realize that!
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
In other words: no, you wouldn't feel the same. He's a blogger, not an assault victim, but his concerns are similar. Avoiding harassment and physical violence against himself and his family. Avoiding negative consequences on his c
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
They don't have to pretend that. But they also don't have to include someone's name when it's not pertinent to the story and could conceivably cause the person harm. It doesn't matter if someone could just Google it
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
Journalists routinely protect people's identities when they think outing them could threaten their safety in some way. They do this regardless of whether a dedicated investigator might be able to piece together someone's identit
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by NovaJehovah 6y ago
Violent revolution and utopianism were core beliefs of both Nazism and Bolshevism. Individual rights are a core belief of both social democratic liberalism and anarcho-capitalism. The existence of Satan is a core belief of both Christians a