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Danish study finds face masks provide limited protection to wearer (2020)(reuters.com)
5 points by angelzen 5y ago|1 comments
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by angelzen 5y ago
How can we tell apart 'dismissive' from 'There is hell ahead. Alas the only way is through it. Might as well keep some dignity, knowing fully well that some of us will not make it.'
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm considering the wide class of 'medicines that reduce covid severity'. To your point, I've heard reasonable Ivermectin proponents arguing that it works best as a preventive and/or started early after infection.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Ivermectin was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine. Human medicine that is. That the FDA would label Ivermectin a 'horse/cow medicine' is a new low. But given the direction Twitter is dragging the public discourse in thi
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by angelzen 5y ago
* TL;DR Vaccines vs. Ivermectin, in two pictures. Vaccines work, Ivermectin weakly moves the needle (maybe). https://twitter.com/andrewdouglass/status/133633600349835264... https://www.medrxiv.org/
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by angelzen 5y ago
It is hard to speak through a mask if your respiratory capacity is diminished. There is a cost to masks.
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by angelzen 5y ago
It is a difficult subject to tackle, here's a second attempt: If there was school choice, sure, go advocate for whatever political cause you want. To the extent that the public is forced to pay taxes for public schools, the public has
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by angelzen 5y ago
GOOD. Now we need to ban mail-in voting and move voting day to a Sunday.
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by angelzen 5y ago
On the flip side, the union bankrolls the politicians of the other party, with a huge conflict of interest. Your answer has no room for the kids education, but plenty of room for pay and benefits of the union members. But that is old school
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by angelzen 5y ago
Nitpick: 0-17 data conflates infant morality with children mortality. 30k of the 54k deaths are in the 0-1 age group. Alternate: For 5-14 age group, there have been 131 covid 'involved' deaths out of 9,038 total deaths, and unclea
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by angelzen 5y ago
Indeed, would be different. Nobody understands the large scale interplay of an evolving virus in presence of monoculture vaccine. What today is a godsend could prove to be a downside tomorrow. Are we supposed to never consider worse case sc
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by angelzen 5y ago
Scenario: X suffers a breakthrough infection and is hospitalized. Doctors estimate a ventilator may be necessary in a couple days. Would you X have access to a last minute post-infection treatment, even imperfect, or just resign yourself to
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by angelzen 5y ago
I dream of a world with less finger-pointing. Especially targeted at other people's hopes.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Are you making a blanket statement that no antiviral treatment can possibly exist for long? I am not an expert, but Tamiflu is a widely available influenza antiviral. Please make a comprehension effort: I am not suggesting that Ivermectin
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by angelzen 5y ago
Not sure how to put this, but I really really hope that if a year from now we are faced with a new virus strain that evades current vaccines ('likely', as Pfizer CEO puts it), nobody is going to trawl HN submission stories and smu
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by angelzen 5y ago
[7] Favorable outcome on viral load and culture viability using Ivermectin in early treatment of non-hospitalized patients with mild COVID-19 – A double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial https://www.medrxiv.org/cont
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by angelzen 5y ago
The Vietnam story is definitely an interesting datapoint. They went to Vietnam, had easy access to heroin (it was a war zone, certain civilian rules no longer applied) and fell to the vice. Not sure why you discount the possibility that the
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by angelzen 5y ago
Appreciate the honesty :) Consider that those with a more conservative position are highly suspicious of underspecified language ('decriminalization', without explicit scope modifiers), which only seem to serve to open the floodga
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by angelzen 5y ago
Are you sure? Litmus test ;) Are you for de-legalization of marijuana? PS. I always assumed that decriminalization and legalization are synonyms because it never crossed my mind that possessing a tiny quantity of a substance, even illegal,
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by angelzen 5y ago
Portugal situation is a bit more nuanced than 'decriminalized all drugs' implies. Drugs are still very much illegal and cannot be owned or traded. Not even marijuana. What changed is that possession of small quantities of drugs no
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by angelzen 5y ago
The data points that A and B exist and are worthy of further consideration. The data is likely too noisy to draw further conclusions. Perhaps in your neck of woods things are different, but on USA West Coast there is near zero public disc
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by angelzen 5y ago
The clarity presupposes that 'cumulative covid deaths / million' is the ultimate measure of a society's worth and achievement. We are incredibly focused on this one metric, to the expense of literally everything else.
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by angelzen 5y ago
It is a bit reckless to push beta version treatments to children, especially when the expected benefits are minor. Kids already handle Covid exceedingly well naturally. Remember that mRNA vaccines have never been deployed at scale before an
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by angelzen 5y ago
Very true. But at some point the public discourse and public health policy must consider tradeoffs. A. Lockdowns have costs. Deficits that will take decades to pay off. Lives lost to alcohol and depression. Economic hardship. A lost educati
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by angelzen 5y ago
Fair. Luckily there is an edit button :)
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by angelzen 5y ago
> Based on the newly updated provisional dataset released today from the Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database, from the end of March 2020 to the beginning of April 2021, an estimated 62,203 deaths were reported among Canadians aged 0
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Canada, April: Under-65 excess mortality exceeds under-65 Covid-19 deaths(www150.statcan.gc.ca)
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by angelzen 5y ago
Haha, this rickrolls the Covid treatments public conversation. Well done :) For the scolds out there, it presents credible work on 'randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial from May 15, 2020, through the end of January 2021 to eval
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by angelzen 5y ago
It is not controversial. It is what data strongly indicates, and should be the top comment. As a parent of school age children and with impending school reopening I have recently participated in Covid discussions on this forum to learn more
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by angelzen 5y ago
You have never experienced Soviet bureaucracy and its petty spitefullness in the name of fighting on behalf of the oppressed. Though the DEI commissars are quickly filling that void. Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!

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