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by angelzen 5y ago
Correct, I misinterpreted. Found a paper on the CDC website. Antibody tests exist and can identify 85-90% of prior asymptomatic or mild covid infection after 8 months, but there is no $5 antibody kit yet. I know, small sample size, this is
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by angelzen 5y ago
The delivery technology has been in development for ages. The payload was tested for about 1 year. IIRC the formulation was done early 2020 in 2 days. Re your link, it asserts 'MYTH: If I’ve already had COVID-19, I don’t need a vaccine
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by angelzen 5y ago
How long should be the clinical trials for updated vaccines? Historically, 'on average, vaccine development can take 10-15 years'. We've rushed the current crop of vaccines 10x. It was an emergency, fingers crossed everything
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by angelzen 5y ago
First news item in a quick google search: "Cheap covid-19 antibody test shows if you have immunity in 5 minutes". Perhaps stop treating people like children that need to be lied to by omission 'for the common good'? htt
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by angelzen 5y ago
Fair enough. What changed is that since then a Cold War ended with a clear winner and a clear loser. Opposing blocks now know there are alternate ways of winning besides hot war. Think about that during the next systemic racism training at
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by angelzen 5y ago
Given that there has been at least one disastrous vaccination campaign, leading to super-hot variants with 100% death rate in unvaccinated poultry (thankfully poultry!), I would advise toning down the language a bit. Nobody has a crystal ba
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by angelzen 5y ago
Fair enough. Arguably Cold War I wasn't much of a war either. Other than perhaps a short window after WW2, there was never a risk of a Soviet invasion in Western Europe. The Soviets could barely move 10 tons of potatoes from Ukraine to
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by angelzen 5y ago
The economic interdependency argument is fragile. It has been refuted at least once in history. In the 1909 book 'The Great Illusion', British lecturer, journalist, author and Member of Parliament and Nobel Peace Prize recipient N
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by angelzen 5y ago
The '80 were a period of continuous economic decline and increase in nationalist sentiment all over USSR and satellites. Mostly an implosion. The US won by simply sustaining a level of prosperity that the Soviets could not match. Argua
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by angelzen 5y ago
Cold War I ended with the breakup of the USSR. Quite possible that Cold War II will have the same end, marked by economic crisis and ethnic strife, but most importantly by the complete dissolution of the average person's faith in their
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by angelzen 5y ago
Sure. I lived in SoCal without a car for a few years in my youth, so it's possible. Until the first child. At a mature age, I'll take up biking just after I get that knee replacement I've been postponing for a while and learn
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by angelzen 5y ago
EU is way behind in tech. Centralized web means centralized web in US or China. Probably the push for decentralized web will fail, but at least it appears that EU does something to reduce dependence on foreign superpowers.
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by angelzen 5y ago
I agree, this subthread would have fit better directly under the OP.
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by angelzen 5y ago
I presume we should destroy oil/gas/coal. That would wipe out ~85% of world's energy production. Might I ask how are we going to power the gigantic engineering project envisioned, on top of somehow keeping people from freezin
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by angelzen 5y ago
Perhaps quoting Hannah Arendt in the OP context is not the slam dunk some think it is. Edit: Allow me to be more direct. Let's take all the vitriol Kasparov has thrown at the feet of the red team since 2016 at face value. For the same
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by angelzen 5y ago
It has been frequently noted that only our political adversaries are brainwashed. Our political team is completely immune from this effect because our team is morally superior, more intelligent and better smelling than those people. Ah, the
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by angelzen 5y ago
It's YouTube. There is mildly popular garbage everywhere. YouTube regularly recommends videos like 'I Went Back To 1st Grade For A Day' by one Mr. Beast with 107M views, or 'CoComelon Songs For Kids' for 77M views.
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by angelzen 5y ago
North American urban planning is absolutely terrible. The problem is that all proposals I've seen are still insufficient at preventing excessive greenhouse emissions. Perhaps I am wrong. Prove it by pointing to a single 100k city (or
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by angelzen 5y ago
Nobody is articulating a vision for the future. OK, I'll stop driving my 2000kg of metal tomorrow. The first grocery shop is 25 minutes walking, one way. Maybe with a good degree of planning my family won't starve. But we also nee
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by angelzen 5y ago
100%. Thanks to globalization and just-in-time economy, supply chains are already overextended and on the brink of failure. Once the first cracks set in, the consequences will cascade until most of agro-industrial production will grind to a
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by angelzen 5y ago
A lot of people see the problem, give us some credit. What we don't see is solutions. Do you have any to share?
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by angelzen 5y ago
> preventable degradation The Kyoto Protocol, first international treaty designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions, was signed in 1997. Since then greenhouse emissions have grown by 50% and global population has grown by 25%. What preve
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by angelzen 5y ago
There is at least one study claiming the opposite of 'smaller viral load': 'Vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads in communities with a high prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant'. Same wi
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by angelzen 5y ago
Indeed, I do reject scapegoat-driven 'public health'. The burden of proof is on the health authorities to quantify win/win scenarios. Not fly by the seat of their pants, sometimes based on faulty/incomplete data and gues
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by angelzen 5y ago
In 1997 highschool smoking rate peaked at 36.4%. Resisting smoking is quite difficult as a teenager, in spite of parents efforts. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/images/p0612-YRBS.pd...
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by angelzen 5y ago
The OP asked about kids specifically. Counterpoint: > Data from the first 12 months of the pandemic in England shows 25 under-18s died from Covid. > Around 15 had life-limiting or underlying conditions, including 13 living with comple
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by angelzen 5y ago
* Flu, which has a particularly high mutation rate, does exactly that: in some years the flu vaccine is only 10% effective. * Most viruses are less infectious than covid, especially delta covid. * The covid vaccines are novel, targeting a s
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thanks for clarifying!
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by angelzen 5y ago
A. I reject on principle the reasoning that X must undergo unnecessary medical procedure to lower hypothetical odds of Y being afflicted by some negative outcome. STOP SCAPEGOATING. B. Consider that the 'cases ratio' is tainted be
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by angelzen 5y ago
Quoting from the recent BBC article: "The UK's chief medical officers recommended a single Pfizer dose for all children aged 12 to 15." Perhaps there is a difference of position between 'advisory board' and 'ch

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