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by angelzen 5y ago
On dark days, I don't know. For every Solzhenitsyn there are thousands if not millions of anonymous souls forced into the wastelands of Siberia with only the shirts on their backs to keep them warm and fed over the unforgiving winter.
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is a good report, thanks for sharing. Though would be more informative to also share raw data tables for all the charts. I dug a bit to double-check the hospitalization rate. The Oct 28 report claims (page 7) "18 Times higher risk
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by angelzen 5y ago
Speaking of polio vaccines, the field trials for polio involved ~1.83 million children, recorded 518 cases of paralytic polio and demonstrated a 71% reduction in paralytic polio. The mRNA covid vaccine clinical trials involved ~2000 childre
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by angelzen 5y ago
Bookmarking this so we can have this delightful conversation 6 months down the road when chances are the boosters prove to be just as effective as the original shots. Early indicators from Israel, which is ahead of the booster curve: > I
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm not making any claims of which race gets penalized, only remarking that it's difficult to effectively lie about race. If we were to listen carefully to refugees from Lebanon / Syria civil wars, we may learn that the tra
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by angelzen 5y ago
Oil giants try distancing themselves from Exxon.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Probably your personalization. I see no such image on a fresh incognito session.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Given that Europe is technically an Asian peninsula, they are not even wrong.
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by angelzen 5y ago
In our postmodern world, identity categories are fluid social constructs. Therefore it is impossible to lie about identity markers on a job application. At least in theory. Please adjust your language accordingly.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Assume you apply for college at an Ivy League. Or a SWE job. Or a faculty position. Or for SMB grants. At some point you'll meet the hiring manager / committee face2face. The animus against your skin color will kick in regardless
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by angelzen 5y ago
At some level what you say rings true. This is the old and true Malthusian observation. There is malaise in the air, the current cycle has run its course. But. Look at the mighty fir. Every year, thousands of seeds spread into the the wind.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Likely. The election cycle is 2/4 years, financial results are issued quarterly and stock grants vest over 4 years. Since we abandoned the notion of a "nation" that transcends the individual short term horizon, there are zero
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by angelzen 5y ago
There are only 2 stable fixpoints: meritocracy and sectarianism, with meritocracy being merely metastable. Trouble is, sectarian armed force don't win wars. At worst they engage in civil war. Your logic is unassailable, sadly few peopl
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by angelzen 5y ago
OK, so you brought in some unquantified covid effects that you then said are irrelevant. I agree, they are irrelevant because they are too rare. Can you please quote a single VE longitudinal study with at least 6 months duration that shows
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by angelzen 5y ago
Not sure about that. While there is a small bias, I'm not sure it sufficient to significantly nudge the result. For example, hypertension comorbidity is 262,659 / 842,974 in vax vs. 207,862 / 842,974 in unvax.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Errata: The Sweden study only breaks down VE against severe infection in <80 and >=80 age groups. VE in <80 holds at 82% at 6 months point, no data for 9 months in the respective table.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Great point, thanks for the clarification. Median age is 53 (Table 1) and they do breakdown by VE against symptomatic infection in <50, 50-64, 65-79, >= 80 age groups plus adjust for comorbidities. But for VE against severe infection
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How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers(vox.com)
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by angelzen 5y ago
That's a bit of an odd argument, as no kids are vaccinated to compare, and especially no kids are vaccinated a year ago to see how well VE holds over time. The point is the Pfizer's own trials failed to prove vaccine health benefi
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by angelzen 5y ago
What about them? It's Pfizer's job to quantify how their vaccine prevents these in kids, not mine. Perhaps redo the trials with a larger population? One more note. The vaccines effectiveness agains infection fades over time, going
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by angelzen 5y ago
Wow, this is worse than I expected. See the two charts at the very end of the pdf. Large margins of error, with the means: VE against symptomatic infection: -15% VE against severe covid: 25%
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by angelzen 5y ago
Rofl. From the paragraph you just quoted: "The immune marker(s) used for immunobridging do not need to be scientifically established". What is the health benefit they are claiming for kids ? Look at table 14: assuming we buy al
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by angelzen 5y ago
"We conducted a covid clinical trial for kids ages 5-11. Nobody got seriously ill. Send Johny out to play with his friends." Who am I kidding.
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by angelzen 5y ago
In the clinical trial underlying the decision there were ZERO severe covid cases or deaths in vaccinated or unvaccinated 5-11 kids. There were a grand total of 19 covid cases altogether out of 1,450 treatment and 736 control groups, over 6
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by angelzen 5y ago
Not very happy about the use of 'criminal' by the original source, but you are sadly missing the point. NONE of the kids in the Pfizer FDA clinical test developed severe covid. Not the vaccinated kids, not the unvaccinated kids. T
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by angelzen 5y ago
The study confirmed that covid vaccines are marginally better than natural immunity against severe covid within 0-6 months since the immunization event. "Laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection was identified among 324 (5.1%) of 6,32
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by angelzen 5y ago
You may find interesting that Pfizer erased the control group for the 5-11 EUA study. Probably for your study too. There is no longterm data & analysis by design. The practices of BigPharma are questionable at best. > Pfizer intentio
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by angelzen 5y ago
Who do you want to own it?
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by angelzen 5y ago
With the looming 5G deployment supporting 1000x device density, what's keeping iot devices to just connect to the 5G network and directly report their payload with no user intervention. If we're lucky we'll get an opt-out cho
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by angelzen 5y ago
I agree! Another reason why VE appears to decrease might be that the ratio of unvax population with prior infection might be growing, and it's a wash between vax and post infection natural immunity. OTOH this is not an isolated data po

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