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by angelzen 5y ago
Bring back friction into the world.
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by angelzen 5y ago
It is a form of perverted sense of fairness. If X gets to skirt the rules, it's only fair that everybody (really, myself, but that sounds too crass) gets to skirt the rules as well.
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by angelzen 5y ago
This may be part of the solution, though, as other mentioned, juries can also be pressured on Twitter. Part of the problem is that people with visible status engage in public harassment of their colleagues on Twitter with no consequences. U
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by angelzen 5y ago
For the record, somebody provided an alternate explanation along the lines of 'they are doing a dumb thing'. Specifically, population estimates are less reliable than vaccination counts, and as vaccination rates go near 90% and ov
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by angelzen 5y ago
There are facts and there is my personal opinion. Personally I find this technology extremely worrisome and there is a good chance they will make it mandatory before long.
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-two-la... From what I can garner, there are such systems on trial, though as of Sept 16 the trials were on a voluntary basis.
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by angelzen 5y ago
I wish people stopped the over-reliance on antibody studies. I get it, it's fun to play with cool technology and great to get papers published. OTOH, antibodies are just a part of the immune system, decay exponentially post infection &
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by angelzen 5y ago
Sorry for the double reply, it just came to my attention a story from Lithuania. First EU country with a strict implementation of the CovidPass. Extreme ostracization of a population segment is rather new, if we are not to count some notori
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by angelzen 5y ago
> this bit is not proven, I'm speculating Thank you. This is the first time I hear someone admitting we are running an open ended experiment with no long term data for guidance. The immune system is not linear. We cannot simply pile
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is dangerously misinformed on two counts: 1. Vaccinated people with an infection have similar viral load to unvaccinated people. > Data from COVID-19 tests in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore are showing that vacc
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by angelzen 5y ago
Kids have vanishingly small risk of covid death, 1%-2% of the already vanishingly small risk of death for kids. The article confirms that the 'long covid in kids' fearmongering is also unwarranted. Given that surviving an infectio
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by angelzen 5y ago
> It's worth remembering, also, that vaccination reduces transmission, in turn reducing severe cases.
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by angelzen 5y ago
CDC has instituted a policy where vaccinated people were instructed to test on symptoms, whereas unvaccinated people were instructed to test on contact with infected person. In a frontline healthcare setting, workers are constantly in conta
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by angelzen 5y ago
The reduction in transmission rates is smaller than you'd think. At 3 months the reduction has diminished substantially, 58% transmission risk, marginally better than 67% for unvaccinated people. There is no data yet for 6 months, 1 ye
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by angelzen 5y ago
Covid mortality is less than 0.1% for ages younger than 55 years old, and less than 0.0005% for ages younger than 14. https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1446202920106668034
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by angelzen 5y ago
> California pushes 1st US vaccine mandate for schoolchildren https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-educa...
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by angelzen 5y ago
That is a good illustration of the concept of vaccine effectiveness, but assumes infection translates into hospitalization 100% of the times. The real hospitalization rate is 1-5%, though half the country believes it is >50%...
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by angelzen 5y ago
North America. We are not yet at federally mandated vaccine or else, but there is a visible trend to require vaccine mandates in more and more settings: work, travel, shopping. So far it is localized in a handful of spots. Absent strong pus
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by angelzen 5y ago
The risk of covid death for a working age parent in 45-55 is about 1:1000. More interesting, the risk of covid death out of all deaths in said age group is 12.5%. Maybe adults have a right to decide for themselves whether a 12.5% increase i
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by angelzen 5y ago
"Either mRNA vaccines are best thing since slice bread, or they are completely useless" How about neither? The contention of this general thread is whether imposing vaccine mandates at the cost of destroying livelihoods is just. S
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by angelzen 5y ago
Absolutely. Note that all the standard schedule vaccines offer long term, possibly life-time protection against both infection and severe cases. Alas, there are no signs that the current crop of covid vaccines are capable of the same perfor
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by angelzen 5y ago
The assumption behind your question is that the victors somehow owe something to the defeated, akin to US occupation of Germany and Japan post WW2. US as a superpower is a huge outlier. Most of history developed along the lines of the Trail
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by angelzen 5y ago
> Not that they need one :) Exactly! None of your damn business how other people handle their health. Go cower in the basement if you can't handle a (hopefully temporary) less than 15% increase in the death rate for your age cohort.
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by angelzen 5y ago
We are on the same page. Nobody should ever be forced to take a medication they don't want. Some people ride motorcycles on the freeway, or do wingsuit jumps, or surf bigwaves, or ski the backcountry, or freesolo el Capitan. I guess it
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by angelzen 5y ago
I am as appalled by the mandatory vaccination push as the next guy. That being said, all the data I've seen shows that the risk of covid complications is significantly higher than the risk of covid vaccine complications. If the fear of
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by angelzen 5y ago
This logic is disconnected from reality: * There is no reasonable way to pinpoint the cause of a covid infection to a single person. * There is no reasonable assumption that an unvaccinated person is infected with covid at all times. * Ther
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by angelzen 5y ago
I have yet to see a reasonable explanation on why UK case rates per 100k for vaccinated people are higher than unvaccinated in >30yo age groups. Whatever the reasons is, it does not match '5X more likely to contract covid'.
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by angelzen 5y ago
mRNA covid vaccines are, sadly, in a class of their own. Compare with, e.g., polio vaccine: > Two doses of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) are 90% effective or more against polio; three doses are 99% to 100% effective. > It is not kno
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by angelzen 5y ago
> Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the
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How bad is Covid-19 in kids?(usatoday.com)
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