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by blub 5y ago
That’s irrelevant in regard to the conclusion: the vaccinated still get sick and spread it, so they should wear masks and get tested. At least the latter is illogically the opposite of what’s happening in e.g. Germany.
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by blub 5y ago
Mandatory vaccines in February won’t do anything until April probably and by then the current wave will be over. Assuming the new South African variant won’t make things worse yet again.
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by blub 5y ago
There is no such right to live without being exposed to a virus. It’a a force of nature that does not obey human rules. The right to be able to reject or accept medical treatments on the other hand is well established and has a long history
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by blub 5y ago
The spectator’s one of the very few newspapers left which publish conservative opinions. Progressive newspapers on the other hand are a dime a dozen and are quite predictable both in what they say and how they say it.
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by blub 5y ago
Who knows what's happening? Everything depends on the enforcement, and there's no details on that yet except that it will be a "Verwaltungsstrafe" not to get vaccinated. This would be a fine, but that's not saying m
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by blub 5y ago
It's not as clear cut as you say. The German constitutional court has not given its last word on the topic, even though they said in a preliminary decision that sufficient protection against Measles outweighs the right of unvaccinated
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by blub 5y ago
For Austria they are completely new... And AFAIK there's no European country which requires all adults to get any vaccine, it's mostly kids and specific professions.
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by blub 5y ago
I thought that this is a very unusual step that Austria's taking, so I did some reading... Germany, Austria and Switzerland don't have any mandatory vaccines for the general population. Only in Germany is vaccination against measl
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by blub 5y ago
If I keep running the search several times in a row, sometimes I get results about escorts, nudity (not clear if illegal just by the DDG small text blurb), etc. and the other times I get normal news. DDG likely has an issue with this websit
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by blub 5y ago
This seems to be a global issue affecting many democratic countries, although the way Republicans likewise target education is probably unique to the US. An illiberal debate culture is taking root in the West, where certain positions may be
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by blub 5y ago
Having read three of the links you posted, it looks like they’re approaching this purely from a US Republican vs. Democrat perspective. But this same phenomenon is definitely happening in the UK, France or Germany and likely other countries
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by blub 5y ago
If I do a search on ddg on this site without entering any search terms (site:archive.ph) I get results about child nudity… Can somebody please post the article or post a trustworthy link?
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by blub 5y ago
Trying and failing. While on the other hand any dumbass with a twitter account can topple CEOs, established professionals, politicians, etc.
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by blub 5y ago
Don’t know about most pressure, but when it comes to succeeding at cancelling, conservatives don’t seem to be able to cancel anything. What or who was cancelled by conservatives in the past let’s say 2-3 years?
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by blub 5y ago
This was exactly one of the concerns of those of us that criticized AstaZeneca in the past and wanted to wait for Biontech/Pfizer - that the vaccine will be considered second rate. It was of course dismissed, just like the concerns abo
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by blub 5y ago
Education is one of the places where institutionalized racism clearly exists in the US and Western Europe, but not in the way you think. According to Wilfred Reilly for the US: “Black (and Latino) students often receive admissions offers wi
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by blub 5y ago
The former top comment from Cerium and the others criticizing HN sure aged poorly. :-) “Grumpy HN users unfairly criticize life-saving hand sign” becomes “Insightful HN users correctly identify hand sign as worthless”. Vindication!
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by blub 5y ago
I meant nobody in Germany, I have no idea how it’s done in other countries :-)
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by blub 5y ago
In Germany the Vaccine commission recommends against aspiration because it may cause discomfort and there's no benefit to the patient. I don't think anybody does it, it's been like this for years and I'm not aware of an
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by blub 5y ago
They're not competing with each-other... Ableton's a pro tool. Garageband for iOS is a fun app aimed at beginners, which allows one to experiment, record, have fun and maybe even produce some tracks. It's surprisingly capable
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by blub 5y ago
That sounds about as useful as Tesla's "auto-pilot" - good when it works but you have to always pay attention that it's not trying to kill you (or your code in this case). A bad proposition for most people, because you c
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by blub 5y ago
Is the US some paradigm of fairness toward foreign companies or are we just having a philosophical conversation about what may be in an ideal world? Some level of protectionism is very beneficial for a country.
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by blub 5y ago
If we're talking about online, Amazon's probably better than small bookstores at delivery, service and availability. OTOH, they tend to treat their employees famously badly and since a few years their online stores are flooded by
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by blub 5y ago
You literally said "makes me think you're an anti-vaxxer". What would labelling them anti-vaccine look like to you, literally writing - walterbell, you sir are an anti-vaxxer? Furthermore "anti-vaxxer" is en ever-ev
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by blub 5y ago
There's a lesson that you may not want to learn here: the guaranteed disappointment in .NET and Microsoft can be reasonably easily avoided by avoiding them .
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by blub 5y ago
Labelling someone as anti-"vaxxer" is not an argument. It's also fine to not want to get vaccinated against Covid and yes - even to argue against it. It's a perk of living in a liberal democracy, which implies freedom of
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by blub 5y ago
Gay marriage is not a human right. The UN didn't even discuss LGBT rights at all until the 90s and while the UDHR was adopted in the 40s (and then additional treaties in the 60s) countries only started to legalise gay marriage in the 2
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by blub 5y ago
If one looks at a typical FFP2 or FFP3 mask, they have two years written on them - 2001 and 2009 - which reference the years the standards for such masks were published. Now this pandemic started around 2020, which is more than decade later
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by blub 5y ago
How do they know that one is not wearing a fake surgical mask then? The obvious conclusion is that parts of the medical establishment are still being dumbasses about masks, two years into the pandemic.
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by blub 5y ago
My corner flower shop has a sign saying surgical or FFP2, just like most shops I’ve seen in my area of Germany. If they can manage it, so should a hospital.

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