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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm talking about US 20 years from now. Those in corporate America who think they are 'winning' today by selling out Western knowhow to China and failing to cultivate an indigenous STEM workforce are in for a big surprise whe
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by angelzen 5y ago
Stockholm at 59.33°N is about .5 degree North of Churchill in Northern Manitoba. Without the Gulf Stream your friend may be in for a rude surprise: polar bears rather than grapes and olives. > Churchill is a town in northern Manitoba, Ca
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by angelzen 5y ago
There is zero chance that the OP claim 'US government will decide that any person born in China is a security risk' will ever happen. There is an ongoing STEM arms race between US and China, with China possibly already ahead. US h
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by angelzen 5y ago
Sorry. I quoted a somewhat non-controversial source, then didn't pick up that you were rightfully describing that UDHR is weak, not prescribing that human rights are obsolete unless we all just take the vaccine.
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by angelzen 5y ago
The ultimate Western executive status symbol is NZ citizenship. Nero vibes.
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by angelzen 5y ago
How much profit does the Guatemalan subsidiary of Dole make?
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by angelzen 5y ago
> destablisation of society thanks to the dropping of quality of life of many people in the west That's not a bug.
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by angelzen 5y ago
They heavily invested in their STEM workforce, making it feasible to take over Western know-how. See OP article.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Glad that you mentioned banana republics. The writing is on the wall...
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by angelzen 5y ago
Sorry to say, but this is typical Western 'markets above all' blinders. Very true, long term China doesn't need Western markets. But China needs World's resources, and Western markets will crash when starved for resource
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by angelzen 5y ago
> US government will at some point soon decide that any person born in mainland China is a security risk Chinese people earn 15-20% of graduate STEM degrees in US, double the percentage of 10 years ago, and not counting second generation
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by angelzen 5y ago
abject tyranny = 'you don't have a right to participate in the public'. I have a right to participate in society. My kids have a right to participate in society. Nobody can take away that right in perpetuity, under no circums
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by angelzen 5y ago
A fourth group: vaccinated with (potential) breakthrough infections. Non-trivial numbers, as the vaccine is only 66% effective in preventing covid infections. According to the manichean logic of the media, this group of people is an immedia
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by angelzen 5y ago
We are taking an open bet: will the vaccine resistant covid strain(s) that are likely to emerge be more/less virulent than Delta or not? I don't have a crystal ball, but given that we know that for <20s the risk of complication
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by angelzen 5y ago
Perpetually quarantining certain classes of people is abject tyranny. Worse, the line is muddy: there are false positives (unvaccinated, but with solid post-covid immunity) and false negatives (vaccinated, but with breakthrough infections).
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by angelzen 5y ago
Got it. There are no human rights. Thanks for spelling it out for the rest of us.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Did we know ahead of time if mRNA vaccine immunity is stronger / weaker than post covid-infection natural immunity? For each strain? Did we know ahead of time when/where Delta will arise? Did we know ahead of time its infectiousne
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is also a possibility. The open scenario is: take the vaccine, don't get a breakthrough case (vaccines work as intended and quickly suppress it), but do get a vaccine-resistant infection later on. If there is more information
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by angelzen 5y ago
'quarantine' comes from Italian 'quarantina': ‘forty days’. It's not 'persempre'. By its very name it implies a time limited action. Link 3 does not support your point: 'The term “quarantine” refers t
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by angelzen 5y ago
Vaccine protection is weakening over time (boosters), mutations evading the vaccine are around the corner (Pfizer CEO), epidemiological profile is vastly different between <20 and >70. There are 4 other coronaviruses kids get exposed
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by angelzen 5y ago
These are valid points, not sure why you are downvoted. One more question: What is the epidemiological profile (LongCovid/IHR/IFR) by age group, compared with the flu?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Wild. 'you don't have a right to participate in the public'. Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary a
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by angelzen 5y ago
Of course Simpson's is heavily at play, of course especially when lumping <25s with >75s. Not sure I see how one can get from the (UK) data to statements like 'more than 99% of recent deaths were among the unvaccinated'
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by angelzen 5y ago
That is wild. The situation in UK is nowhere near '99% unvaccinated suffer terrible outcome'. On 20th August, Public Health England published a report that is quite a bit more balanced. From Table 5, pp 22-23, Delta cases: o
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by angelzen 5y ago
Recently in the news: "Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla says that a vaccine-resistant COVID variant will “likely” emerge.", while touting that his company can design a new vaccine in 95 days when the dreaded variant arises. https:&#x
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by angelzen 5y ago
Terrible, sorry to hear that.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thank you!
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by angelzen 5y ago
Appreciate your effort to link to sources. We fundamentally suffer from lack of data: what are the morbidity and mortality by age group, by comorbidity (obesity and diabetes), by unvax / unvax + covid / vax? Furthermore, being &#x
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by angelzen 5y ago
I do not understand what the 5 year plan is. Even less what the 50 year plan is. On one hand: We are blessed to have access to mass genetic vector vaccines. Genetic vector vaccines are amazing at shaving off the sharp edge of the pandemic.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Is there data to quantify how much more dangerous Delta is compared with Alpha, by age group? What we know so far is that Alpha is less dangerous for <18s than the flu. Could well be that Delta is worse than Alpha, while still less dange

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