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by angelzen 5y ago
Good article, a litrevew of sorts focusing on long term immunity (B cell behavior) and multiple infection events. Dissapointingly, studying only infection + vaccine and vaccine + vaccine (+ booster) sequences. Looking forward further work t
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is interesting, and not in a good way. I'm not sure FDA as we know it can survive a two-track regime, where some medicine is fast tracked and/or cleared of legal liability. Sooner or later most new medicine will end up on the
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by angelzen 5y ago
The root of the criticism is that a sitting president wields a lot or authority and is not supposed to tout experimental treatments. The actual media spectacle we've got though...
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by angelzen 5y ago
The fossil fuel momentum is gargantuan, propelled by a growing population hungry for creature's comforts. Politicians will do what politicians do, take credit for the direction in which the wind blows. Doubtful they have any meaningful
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by angelzen 5y ago
The planet will survive until the Sun will engulf it during the red giant phase. 10B people hanging on Earth's surface may have more urgent concerns.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Things are not looking good. The wheat situation is the most worrisome, in WA the 2021 wheat crop is 50% of the 2020 crop. "Smallest harvest in 57 years." On a small note, I wasn't aware of the pasta situation. I was surprise
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by angelzen 5y ago
Not sure about 'quite comfortable' part. The PNW just had a crazy >115F heat wave. At some point the crops will start drying out in the fields, which is far from a reassuring prospect. https://www.seattletimes.com&#x
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is confusing models with reality. It is the application of any specific model to reality that is not perfect.
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm not sure what 'climate [change] denial' means: A. There is no measurable climate change. B. The causes of the planet's climate change are cosmic, not human made. C. Industrial activity is causing climate change, but
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by angelzen 5y ago
It's more complicated than that. Most scientists do not set out to willfully participate in bullshit. They do honest work within the constraints of their profession. As an example, take covid antibody studies. It is interesting and use
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a > More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Thos
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by angelzen 5y ago
Or the -phobe suffix. This isn't isolated.
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by angelzen 5y ago
To reduce the temperature on HN :) Technically the article is correct, alas it reads as a half-truth. Mark Twain had some words for half-truths, but those words won't advance a level-headed conversation.
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by angelzen 5y ago
> The researchers next looked at a different group of 47 people who had gone a year since a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Of those 47, 26 were still unvaccinated and 21 had received one dose of a vaccine. At that point, the unvaccinated 26 had e
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by angelzen 5y ago
Ivermectin is a perfect story for our divided times. Republicans believe Ivermectin is very effective by a 22R-6D margin and very + possibly effective by a 56R-19D margin. Conversely, Democrats believe Ivermectin is dangerous by a 64D-18R m
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by angelzen 5y ago
We'll never know for sure. Which is too bad, because the plan of "Let's comb remote caves for hundreds of dangerous pathogens, bring them to a lab in the middle of a 10M metropolis, then perform gain-of-function research on t
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by angelzen 5y ago
None of these groups has the strength to put their money where their mouth is and go Amish.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Why is this strange? Turns out there is a lot of people that see no problem with collective guilt by spreadsheet and scapegoating of those caught on the wrong side of said spreadsheet.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Whatever you think of Fauci, he's amazingly well connected in elite circles. To the point he has people making fawning movies about his life and career. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fauci
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by angelzen 5y ago
There are a a dozen and a half physicians in Congress. Their political affiliation may be surprising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicians_in_the_United_State...
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by angelzen 5y ago
Drunk driving laws are not the Prohibition. They merely say don't drive if you drank too much alcohol. If only there were something that someone could do if getting sick... hmmm... like stay at home?
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by angelzen 5y ago
The immune system is more complicated than that. I have no answer on what the correct strategy is, but I contest the blanket statement that taking the vaccine has zero impact on long term protection. We need actual long term data and actual
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by angelzen 5y ago
The difficulty is that the immune system is not linear. I am far from being an expert, but terms like ADE and original antigenic sin are part of the literature. This is not to say which approach is better, it is only a caveat that thinki
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by angelzen 5y ago
Please don't take medical advice from HN. When you look at small children data, mind that there are some very high risk children out there. "Data from the first 12 months of the pandemic in England shows 25 under-18s died from Cov
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by angelzen 5y ago
The intent is to place an upper bound on covid relative risk: <15% of all deaths in every age group. Young adults have lower relative risk, children much lower. For me even 15%, while undesirable, is low enough relative risk to character
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by angelzen 5y ago
The monetary penalty was $5, which translates to $150 in adjusted 2020 dollars. Quite the jump from there to 'remove all ability for gainful employment in perpetuity'. VivaFrei podcast has recently claimed that the Jacobson decisi
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by angelzen 5y ago
Doctors don't have a time machine either. We are all engaging in the age old process that goes under the name of "faith". And there is nothing wrong with it!
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://data.cdc.gov/resource/3apk-4u4f.csv https://usafacts.org/articles/americans-causes-of-death-by-a... I am not comparing covid deaths with the entire population, only with the number of pe
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by angelzen 5y ago
I've got the vaccine, thanks for your interest in my personal health choices. I haven't seen evidence that it will hold up on a 5 year horizon, perhaps you have a time machine?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Perhaps it's something related to aging. After a certain point in life you make peace with the idea that sooner or later everybody dies. To put covid in perspective, we can calculate the relative risk of covid death compared to risk of

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