adamiscool8

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by adamiscool8 4y ago
The true hospitalization risk from COVID could be 1/4th to 1/10th that given that cases are widely estimated to be 4-10X what was reported. The serious adverse event definition and rates are defined here: https://health
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>We all have to take risks and some of them are mandated for the good of society. What are some other risky and irreversible interventions mandated upon the individual for the good of society?
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According to my governments stats, the COVID-19 hospitalization rate for my age + health cohort, when modestly adjusted for their known undercount of cases, is less than 1 in 3000. Also by their stats, more than 1 in 2000 4-dose mRNA vaccin
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by adamiscool8 4y ago
Not in all age+health cohorts.
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The rate of adverse events seen with the flu shots is a full order of magnitude lower than the COVID-19 vaccines. People are partially up in arms because there is a continued conflation of two very different safety profiles.
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The rate of serious adverse effects is literally a full order of magnitude higher for the COVID-19 vaccines than for the flu shot or the longstanding childhood inoculations like MMR. The difference you see in trust is because of an establis
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I don’t think this is a complex trade-off at all, precisely for the reasons in your second paragraph. The whole issue boils down to whether we should allow the powers that be a framework to criminalize being an unadulterated human. That pat
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Can you explain exactly how it’s moral to prevent an otherwise healthy person from mixing with the elderly (who are free to be vaccinated and wear PPE if they feel at risk) in public settings, unless they will accept a medical intervention
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by adamiscool8 4y ago
Well, despite those handicaps, I trust your risk calculus is still as valid for your situation as mine is for me. Why would you not extend the same courtesy to others? I’m reminded of a Carl Sagan quote: > One of the great commandments o
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by adamiscool8 4y ago
In my age+health cohort, the known and documented risks of the vaccines outweigh the known risks of COVID-19, but you assume “bad reasons” because it’s not a religious objection or medical contraindication. What makes your risk calculus any
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It’s frightening how easily the framing of a very individual risk assessment with collectivist “do the right thing for everyone” messaging can prompt discriminatory attitudes. The threshold to trigger this herding behavior is far lower than
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The figure has been disputed [0] but it originates from an analysis done by a John Hopkins University doctor published in the BMJ [1][2]: > We define death due to medical error as death due to 1) an error in judgment, skill, or coordinat
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There is probably need for water infrastructure upgrades, but that’s not the central reason for the consumer choice — they’re not “falling into a trap” when they buy water. There is value captured in the health, convenience, safety and sati
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In that both are exemplary qualities, only talked down by people who — by laziness or ulterior motive — would rather see them outsourced?
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>Is there an authoritarian government in the history of humanity that managed to kill 50% of its population? That's the sort of higher-order question you'll be able to find out right after the magical Ebola wave, if you embrace
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It's not, it's about a coinflip (as the sibling reply noted). But you're making a very salient point about the ease at which higher order thinking can be shut down en masse in a population through fear.
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The irony of seeing this reply in a thread started with hope for "renewed appreciation for the second-order, systemic, and unintended consequences of any action" is darkly comic.
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Drinking coffee before shopping can lead to impulse buying(digest.bps.org.uk)
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What is the best? Cursory googling suggests SD cards last ~decades at normal usage [0], and in this context where it's barely accessed, maybe longer? [0] https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/faq
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by adamiscool8 5y ago
Sure, but you dramatically change the character of a city or neighbourhood when you upzone with that intensity. Real estate prices and rents would also come back to reality if rates go up meaningfully and foreign investment is banned withou
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$100 USD/week [0] is not much of a safety net. [0] https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06...
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You don't think the accumulation of lipid nanoparticles from what might be annual vaccinations could impact developmental growth in children? We have decades of research on Coronaviridae even if COVID-19 is a bit different, but we have
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by adamiscool8 5y ago
I remember doing this in PHP(4? 5?) for my undergrad capstone project because I had a looming due date and it was the dev environment I had readily available. No helpful libraries in that decade. Great way to really grok the material, and r
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Sell antiwork merch?
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>Frontera led a study that found that more than 13% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had developed a new neurological disorder soon after being infected. A follow-up study found that six months later, about half of the patients in that
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Is there any reason to believe the CIA wouldn't have covert assets surreptitiously working in all those same roles, either domestically or abroad?
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The link references a specific response to remdesivir, but I don't see how the selective pressure isn't the same in the broader case of low-level or asymptomatic illness persisting in a vaccinated person, particularly when they&#x
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You have to make reasonable inferences when evaluating the potential for collusion between what are arguably the two most powerful entities in the world.
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Direct, of course not. Circumstantial, sure: >Google representatives attended White House meetings more than once a week, on average, from the beginning of Obama’s presidency through October 2015. Nearly 250 people have shuttled from gov
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by adamiscool8 5y ago
edit2: actually, I see the denominator there is total population not cases but I still don't follow. There have been 19,850,744 cases in 18-49 year olds [0] and 63,207 hospitalizations [1] which suggests at 0.3% infection hospitali

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