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by angelzen 5y ago
Sorry. I fully agree that we should contain covid discussion in covid threads, so people can easily avoid this topic altogether. And make a better effort. As to "ideological battle", it simply dawned on me that I see no reasonable
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by angelzen 5y ago
I wonder what the exit condition for the pandemic mode is, or even how we define "out of the pandemic". Vaccines have delivered a great success in blunting the sharp edge. Compare cases vs. deaths. I picked 4 countries with varied
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by angelzen 5y ago
That is lazy. Indeed, there is no point in refuting a random 90 page paper. However, a good professional should be able to quickly summarize the state of the area touched by the paper and provide a short list of key citations and publicatio
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by angelzen 5y ago
"The vaccine was never touted as being 100% effective." We have overloaded the very term "vaccine" in a fairly misleading manner. One one hand we have vaccines that are highly effective in the longterm and can virtually
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is an orthogonal point. I don't see any provision mandating wages or promotions for periods when people are on leave, abled or disabled. The argument assumes that all people receive the same pay and promotions for the same work. W
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Protective immunity after recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection(thelancet.com)
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by angelzen 5y ago
We seem to disagree with a very specific point about breastfeeding. One perspective is supported by reasonable authoritative sources (AAP). What is your recommendation for the care and feeding for an infant in their first year of life?
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by angelzen 5y ago
"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants be exclusively breastfed for about the first 6 months with continued breastfeeding along with introducing appropriate complementary foods for 1 year or longer." https:&#
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by angelzen 5y ago
A third of severe influenza cases develop bacterial pneumonia. Which, left untreated, is deadly. I know, because a few years back I developed pneumonia in the wake of a flu, collapsed a lung and almost died. They saved my life in an ICU wit
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by angelzen 5y ago
Let's recap: 1. The proposal is to offer mothers a 12 months leave, at the very least as a social expectation, even better paid by a state run insurance, see e.g. unemployment, to take care of their infant children. 2. Mothers rather t
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by angelzen 5y ago
Agreed, the situation is a mess. Lest we remember that even particle physics, the canonical example for the success of the scientific method, can be subject to systematic bias due to social pressure. "Decades ago, physicists includin
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by angelzen 5y ago
Your question: "Why should mothers take care of infants?" A passing familiarity with mammal biology is required. FYI, babies do not subsist on hamburgers and fries. Admittedly, it is very difficult to have this conversation when s
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by angelzen 5y ago
Perhaps this is a case of metrics getting ahead of reality. Some circles have taken as an axiomatic truth that any disparity in wages between males and females is an intrinsic scandal. Perhaps there are some reasons for that, for example th
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by angelzen 5y ago
FWIW, the vaccine efficacy story is very muddled. * UK shows negative VE * US and Germany show 90-95% VE * Medical literature shows 50% VE at six months and waning Sadly, there is no longterm RCT in place to perform this basic, but extremel
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by angelzen 5y ago
Perhaps you mean "90% of covid hospitalizations", which is different than "90% of hospitalizations". I've been checking the jhu pages for various US states, never seen covid hospitalization rates above 10-20% and co
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by angelzen 5y ago
Sorry, does not compute. Feel free to do whatever triage you want for the scarce ICU resource. Banning large numbers healthy people form society, of which the vast majority (>99%) will never need an ICU, is something else entirely.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Like many things in life, absolute universal healthcare is impossible. At limit it implies life without death and youth without aging. The utopian ideal must contend with the reality that resources are finite and accept tradeoffs.
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by angelzen 5y ago
ICUs are a scarce bonus, not an entitlement. We are talking denying basic human rights to a large segment of healthy people on the off chance that a tiny percent of them will end up populating the tiny number of ICUs available in the coun
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by angelzen 5y ago
I like NestedText, it's less verbose than anything else for nested data.
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by angelzen 5y ago
"Do you shrug off flu vaccines because they're only effective for a year" Yes, indeed, I don't go out of my way to get a flu vaccine. Flu vaccine effectiveness is underwhelming, 30-40% on average, see https://
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by angelzen 5y ago
CDC definition I just quoted: "Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected."
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by angelzen 5y ago
There is more (and less) to similarity than the shape of the flag. Taking in account economic, geographic and cultural factors, a fair comparison would also consider Germany and Netherlands, possibly also Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and U
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by angelzen 5y ago
Both: "Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected ." Before: "Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce i
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by angelzen 5y ago
"For young children, Covid looks like a normal flu, if not a mild one: <US hospitalization rate for 0-4 yo olds chart, covid lower than flu for 9 out of 10 past years>". This is new data. Hopefully in a year or two our media
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by angelzen 5y ago
Generally speaking, under 50 populations survive covid fairly well. Under 18 survive almost perfectly, with a higher survivability rate than drowning. Therein lies the problem: we expose the young(er) populations to a black swan event. Plea
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by angelzen 5y ago
Ha. I stopped at the gif with rotating robots.
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by angelzen 5y ago
1. Where do you pick your transmission data from? Are there credible studies? VE is the closest proxy for infecting other persons. Beyond that it is difficult to guess transmissibility, in particular because asymptomatic infections and diff
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by angelzen 5y ago
no clear benefit on short term metrics != probably harmful
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by angelzen 5y ago
There is a growing body of research indicating that VE declines over time. After 6 months the vaccines reduce the risk of getting covid by 2x, VEaI = 50%. Not sure where you picked the 10x number. (OA) US, veterans, 3 months VEaI = 78%, 6 m
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by angelzen 5y ago
Conspicuously missing the persecution of Kulaks and Christians, among others, in the Soviet Union. Side note aside, some of those historical blights hinge on the choice of religion / ideology. You'd think that choosing the correct

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