Pyramus

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by Pyramus 5y ago
My understanding is that it's not clear at all with respect to variants, hence this study. The spike protein has been picked for the reason that it's unlikely to change.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
The reason you are getting downvoted is the phenomenon discussed here is independent of whether the dam creates energy or not. It has no bearing on whether you are pro or against hydro-electric power generation.
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Prof. Drosten, where did the virus come from? (German)(republik.ch)
6 points by Pyramus 5y ago|5 comments
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by Pyramus 5y ago
You are mixing accountability and responsibility here - to give a less politically charged analogue: was Steve Ballmer responsible for the spread of the ILOVEYOU virus? No, but he held ultimate accountability for VBA being enabled by defaul
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Not disagreeing with you, only giving a counter-example to parent's simple math argument.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
If the math were that easy, we wouldn't be discussing it. The first SARS outbreak happened in Guangzhou which has a BSL-3 lab, yet all evidence points to zoonotic transfer.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Re 2. The wet market was likely the first superspreader event but the patient zero (from what we know today) had no connection to it.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
How is he "the leading figure"? Fauci is hardly relevant outside the US. As you mentioned we are discussing a global phenomenon and it's useful to distinguish between global and US specific matters.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Don't forget Covid/SARS-Cov-2 is only 6 months older than the vaccines: Nov-2019 vs Apr-2020. Every bit of data that we have today about the safety profile of the vaccines vs Covid indicates that for the majority of people vaccine
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> The whole principle that you need to prove vaccination to be let into a country is not really new. Exactly. Necessary and recommended vaccinations are one of the first things to check when planning a trip to destinations in Africa, Sou
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by Pyramus 5y ago
You definitely can. If you catch me poisoning your water and the water has been poisoned I will most certainly be charged with attempt to commit manslaughter. I wouldn't even need to actually have poisoned the water.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I don't understand the connection to abortion at all - just because they somehow both concern 'future humans' doesn't mean there is a logical connection here, in the sense that A leads to B or B leads to A. Could you exp
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Not parent, but there has been a popular alternative facts campaign that aims to discredit PCR tests, partially on misunderstanding how PCR tests work (e.g. ct values, false positives etc.) and partially on technicalities that PCR tests sho
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by Pyramus 5y ago
No, "we" haven't "known", and I'm not sure oversimplification is a good answer to fear mongering. Yes, expert consensus has been positive from almost day one, based on SARS-Cov-1 and other coronaviruses. Still,
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Leaving aside that I don't know who is "we" and how "we have acted": A theme of the current pandemic has been that the societies/governments that had faced a coronavirus outbreak in the past, e.g. SARS in Taiwa
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Just interested how the vaccinations were done where you got it, small/big city, who administered it etc...
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Interesting, could you elaborate more? The six month interval is not a universal truth but the recommendation by the German regulator [1]. [1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50476/do-the-co...
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I think parent's advice is solid. Covid sits at this sweet spot where it's not that bad for young folks, but it's easily transmissible and mortality increases exponentially with age. Which means certain demographics will be h
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by Pyramus 5y ago
As a European I do not understand what vaccination has to do with political leaning. It's even stranger that in the US pro-life (abortion) seems to correlate with pro-choice (vaccines)? I do understand however that society as a whole s
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by Pyramus 5y ago
You can't get the vaccine without anamnesis/checking your medical history, and one item is prior infection.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Not really. If you are talking about pre-existing immunity from prior infection, the benefit may be less, and in fact it is recommended not to vaccinate within 6 months of infection. If you are talking about innate immunity or cross-immunit
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> I'm getting my 2nd shot this week, but both mRNA and modified adenovirus vaccines have never been used for mass vaccinations before. The history of medicine is litered with interventions that were seen as totally safe and wonderfu
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Yes you are correct - still don't see why they could be subsumed under honest mistakes which lead to this oversight.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
The author's explanations of UFOs: (A) Honest mistakes (B) New Govt. Tech (C) Hoaxes & Lies (D) Aliens, Etc. It seems an obvious oversight to me that unexplained physical phenomena are missing, e.g. weather/atmospheric effects
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by Pyramus 5y ago
It is possible to test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catecholamine#Testing_for_cate... Somebody else stated it already better than I could: We do have a number of biomarkers for depression, the problem is they only co
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I think the main objection is that what you are saying is technically true - all human conditions are physical in the sense that humans are immensely complex dynamical systems consisting of atoms, molecules, proteins, pathways etc. However
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Why don't we have valid an reliable biomarkers for depression then? What is a 'normal' level of catecholamines? Not disagreeing that the mental/physical dichotomy is arbitrary.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Why do you think that? If there is one thing that we do know it is that depression, say, is multifactorial and complex. In very few cases are the reasons only biological (but they do exist). See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Let me add that many psychiatric conditions, more so than physical conditions, are continuous, not binary, with severity changing over time.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
In 2020 more US Americans have died of Covid than Malaria globally. It sounds absurd.

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