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by _djo_ 5y ago
You found one example of self-reporting and that suddenly invalidates all independent reporting? That makes zero sense.
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Or, the alternative and simpler explanation: Bellingcat aren't directed by the US government in the way you believe. Nor were the journalists who exposed lax nuclear weapons security in the past.
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Bellingcat have done all kinds of investigations, including some which embarrass or implicate in war crimes governments like that of Ethiopia, Chad, and Cameroon who are US allies. Here's another example, which highlights the lax secur
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by _djo_ 5y ago
If they're the biggest chunk of your funding, sure. If it's just one funding source amongst many, which is the strategy taken by groups like Bellingcat to avoid that sort of implicit coercion, then that's really not a factor.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This is a weak attempt to discredit Bellingcat, and frankly raises more questions about Declassified UK's intentions and objectives than it does about Bellingcat. NED funding is easily and openly given to tons of entities and doesn&#x2
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The first and primary public focus was always to prevent severe illness and death and alleviate the load on hospitals. Messaging on that has been fairly consistent. Some countries pursued an eradication goal early on and some public health
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It’s not that simple. Radar altimeters use very low power levels and are extremely sensitive to both adjacent channel and out of band interference. Until now this has not been an issue because systems operating in the 3.8-4GHz range have ha
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by _djo_ 5y ago
I could bring up dozens of other examples of prominent scientists and public health professionals saying the same thing after the final Phase III results were published, but frankly I have to wonder if you’re worth the time it would take to
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by _djo_ 5y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to claim, are you trying to say that the trial results were falsified? Because there's no other way your insistence on this makes sense. That journal article accurately reports on the fin
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It's a different type of virus. We have never, ever, successfully achieved the level of immunity against a rapidly mutating airborne virus as we have with SARS-CoV-2. Our greatest successes, Polio and Smallpox, were both extremely stab
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That accurately reflected the results of the trial, which reflected performance against the original wild type. Do you dispute them? However, scientific consensus was that we may not see such great results in the real world, especially if v
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The radar altimeters came first, so the FCC should never have been allowed to sell that spectrum or allow the power levels it did. It’s not like they could reasonably use other frequencies: Those in use for radar altimeters are defined by t
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This isn’t the ILS signal, it’s the radar altimeter. Equally crucial.
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The scientific consensus, as summarised in this Nature article announcing the news, seems pretty clear on what was being looked at and that the trials focused on severe disease outcomes. https://www.nature.com/articles/
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Neither vaccine was fully sterilising. In fact current US CDC advice if going to a country with a polio outbreak is to get a booster. In both those cases the vaccines just blunted the transmission rate enough for r0 to drop below 1. We were
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by _djo_ 5y ago
“Protecting from disease” was always recognised in the medical community as meaning you’d not get the severe symptoms of the disease, not that you could not get infected at all and not pass it onto others. Few, if any, vaccines have blocked
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Nope. You’re mixing numbers. Both the trials and independent national studies found vaccines like the Pfizer-BioNTech one to be about 95% effectiveness against severe disease and hospitalisation, not infection. It was never claimed that t
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This is ridiculous, you're not discussing this in good faith. Without any actual expertise in this area you reject out of hand the results of an actual scientific study looking at hospital admissions across the entire country and inste
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by _djo_ 5y ago
You are selectively cherry-picking data here. Dr Coetzee is one doctor with a relatively small number of patients, and she was always clear in stating that her observations were for her patients only. Nor has she or any other set of promine
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The South Africans have not been saying that at all. They have said it's somewhat milder and results in lower rates of hospitalisation, but that it's still a serious disease and that the increased infectiousness can result in th
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by _djo_ 5y ago
You have to opt in to iMessage. This is also no different to everyone in a group who can use WhatsApp or a similar app using that. SMS is the lowest common denominator fallback. RCS is not much better.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Apple has to abide by the law in each jurisdiction it operates in or cease operating there. It doesn’t have the ability to give a middle finger to both those governments and still be able to sell devices to Russians and Chinese people to us
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No, you provided an unusual, very specific example, and strongly implied that you would fire any of the nannies you employ if they became pregnant. That says a lot about your mindset. Fact is, there are certain fundamental costs and risks y
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In practice it's not a common occurrence, and companies have options in place like company doctors to manage things like burnout and avoid those scenarios from happening in the first place. It's not a blocker for startups.
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Like almost any business risk, the need to support long-term sick leave or similar absences by employees is something you can take out insurance for. As long as you're not operating in a way that forces a ton of people into getting sic
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by _djo_ 5y ago
> 1y sounds like a long time, esp for smaller companies (like if you have say 5 ppl on a payroll). I wonder if they can insure against such a risk (say if an insurer can cover the salary if absence longer than a month). Yes, there are in
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After Zondo report, Boris Johnson must freeze all state contracts with Bain(dailymaverick.co.za)
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It’s not quite as simple as that. First, it’s not certain that Omicron emerged in South Africa, but in another nearby sub-Saharan African country without the same resources. All of South Africa’s neighbours with the exception of Botswana (w
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It means it’s less likely than other more compelling explanations. For instance, South Africa has previously observed similar huge evolutionary jumps in single immunosuppressed patients with HIV. A similar case was observed in Europe with l
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No, none of those are suspected of being Patient Zero because they aren’t the earliest cases. Just the first to be detected. Nigeria has found Omicron in samples dating back to October, long before the diplomat cases were identified, and an

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