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by a0-prw 5y ago
Dictatorship, plain and simple
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If it's evolution you are looking for, covid would have taken care of things for you: The old, fat and sick are overwhelmingly the ones who die.
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Interesting that the US fled from Kabul, leaving Ukrainian and Georgian mercenaries, but taking service dogs with them. But, by all means, continue to believe in American good will. Anyone who continues to believe in the US is an idiot. Get
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They were helping you to commit war crimes in Iraq/Afghanistan. They should have stayed at home, and cultivated a healthy relationship with Russia instead.
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RT and CGTN, avoid all Western news outlets like NYT, BBC, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, AP, DW, etc.
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How much does the vaccine cost globally? How much have the lockdowns cost the economies of developing nations? There is a very strong correlation between GDP and life expectancy, especially in developing nations. The money would have been b
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A significant proportion of Ukraine's population does not want Nato or the West. They want Russia... so much so that there is an ongoing civil war in Ukraine, and there are self-proclaimed republics in the East of Ukraine
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No. It was Stalin's policy (his word was law). Stalin was a Georgian.
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No, that would be Yugoslavia in the early 90s.
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Then they had better be sensible and not ideological
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Ok, name them. But remember Russia has never involved itself where it does not have deep cultural ties. Or where it's actually been invited, like Syria.
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I love these threads about the virus. Where else can you get the thrill of considering your own and your loved ones' mortality, and pump the illusion that what you say matters in the big picture?
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archive link https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
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> Leave the science to the scientists, virologists, and medical professionals. Stop insinuating that there is some sort of scary unknown danger here. Lots of scientists with qualifications relevant to the debate have been critical of the
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Love it :)
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Not sure if it meets your criterion of less conspicuous, but tuberculosis ? Wikipedia claims 25% of global population has latent TB which is definitely significant.
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It absolutely is possible: If New York has a high proportion of obese and/or elderly people with comorbidities, it will have a higher IFR than places with a lower proportion. In 2019 almost a quarter of NY's population was over 60
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by a0-prw 5y ago
"Boomerlight" - interesting neologism! I assume it's analogous to "gaslighting", and applies when a boomer is trying to change younger generations' focus of attention. Is my guess correct?
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We have a reasonable idea of the likelihood of dying of covid: the estimated IFR is between 0.14% and 0.2%. That means for every 10000 people that contract it, roughly 16 to 17 of those people will die. Of those 16 to 17 deaths, the vast ma
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by a0-prw 5y ago
Sure, riots are definitely a symptom, but the scale and destruction associated with the recent riots could well also be contributing to a rise in unemployment.
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Maybe he got it from a small child or someone fully vaccinated or someone who can't get the vaccine for medical reasons. Yes, fully vaccinated people can get the virus and transmit it. Would you still trade his life for theirs in an in
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I agree with you that 1/6 would be unacceptable, if that's what the post you replied to intended. On the other hand, 1/600 means between 16 and 17 dead for every 10000 people infected. Of those 16 to 17 people, the vast major
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Because they were not disposing of dangerous waste according to protocol. Also the CDC limited information about the shutdown due to "national security concerns". Archived NYT article from August 6 2019: https://archive
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According to a Red Cross study ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33252659/ ), Covid-19 may have been in the US before the first official cases, and if so, it's entirely plausible it was community transmission and no
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Covid has an estimated IFR of between 0.14% and 0.2%, with older age groups (with many comorbidities) heavily dominating the death rates. I would target preventative measures at high-risk groups. I would not implement lockdowns and I wo
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by a0-prw 5y ago
The strident media voices decrying the events in Afghanistan are hypocrites: The Taliban were going to return to power sooner or later. If it had taken 90 days, far more people would have died. The Afghan soldiers who exchanged their weapon
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I refer you to The Big Lebowski ;)
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Americans love to say this: "China, at least, is not limited by public perception, and will have no qualms about doing war crimes, and they will call it conquering." But, really, China is pretty peaceful compared to US thuggery. I
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Ask yourself why US taxpayers keep pouring money into such a terrible, incompetent system.
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This started well and went downhill fast with absolutely ridiculous examples.

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