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by blub 6y ago
I've linked this somewhere else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25479729 . This references studies from the SARS times and for flu. N95/FFP2 masks are pretty well established, they were used by front line wor
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by blub 6y ago
This "can't code a for loop" is a misleading statement given the kind of interviews that are typical at e.g. Facebook. Even if that candidate could code a for loop and a while loop and knew the syntax of that programming lang
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by blub 6y ago
Like I've said before, I don't have any problem if those that want to accelerate humanity's progress in this area volunteer themselves and their families to be self-driving test dummies. I'd even support the idea of buil
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by blub 6y ago
I am not a large-N group though, so my main interest is whether a properly worn FFP2 mask can protect me. Everything indicates that it can. My only worry was FFP2 vs FFP3, since the former is not actually recommended to be used to protect a
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by blub 6y ago
Ok, and what is the list of those countries and the quantities that they're getting? Because from your second sentence it read like an awfully short list if nobody's expecting on receiving vaccine.
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by blub 6y ago
At least in Germany the potential social benefit was weighed against the personal discomfort and the latter was not considered significant enough. There are people that can't wear masks for various reasons and they can get a doctor&#x2
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by blub 6y ago
In Germany (and other countries) masks must be worn whenever distance can't be kept, so they are widely worn. Doctor's offices, public transport, work (typically not at one's desk), religious gatherings, retirement homes, e
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by blub 6y ago
Not much difference between using 100% of the locally produced doses locally and blocking it for export. Let's rephrase the question: which countries are the US and UK currently exporting vaccine to and in which quantities?
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by blub 6y ago
Whether they work for the general population is maybe a concern for Fauci, the government and the odd HN commenter. The message was that they don't work to protect individuals from the virus, hence they should not be bought by normal p
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by blub 6y ago
Having closely followed the mask discussion, they lied, plain and simple. Maybe they didn't specifically use a certain wording, but the aim was clear - discourage people from wearing any masks. And N95+/FFP2+ masks work at prote
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by blub 6y ago
Maybe the population wouldn't have to reserve N95 masks for medical personnel if: * the production hadn't been outsourced to China which then decided to ban exports while also accepting the PPE donations of other countries * the g
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by blub 6y ago
Masks of the FFP2/N95 variety have great utility at protecting the wearer, even when not worn perfectly. This should be the main concern of every individual. Governments can worry about whether they work en masse .
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by blub 6y ago
I'd like to add a couple of points: 1. It's not that hard for the general population to wear an FFP2 mask properly. I'm reasonably sure that this also applies to N95 masks. If you'll read the instructions that come with
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by blub 6y ago
Fauci is a liar or incompetent. He claimed that masks do not work.
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by blub 6y ago
About 2.5h more? :)
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by blub 6y ago
What's up with Turkey? Recently bought German made masks and they were CE certified by a Turkish company/organisation.
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by blub 6y ago
Foreign governments (ahem, government) bought the masks from underneath the US's nose. The USG should have insta-blocked exports.
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by blub 6y ago
As the downvoted comment explains, there's good quality masks coming out of China and there's tons of questionable quality masks. Differentiating between the two is difficult if not impossible. Personally I am using some Chinese m
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by blub 6y ago
Amazon.de was sold-out around February-March 2020 and never really recovered. Currently there's only third party sellers which sell FFP2 masks in there. But masks are widely available in pharmacies and specialized stores. I'd try
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by blub 6y ago
OP was claiming that this article offers proof that Frontex is systematically breaking the law and that's what I was responding to. I am not familiar with all the wrongdoings that Frontex allgedly participates in, nor am I particul
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by blub 6y ago
Nobody's shooting anyone or advocating that people should drown, tone down the drama. If someone is paying to get smuggled across the sea, there's a strong chance they will drown. That's reality.
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by blub 6y ago
AFAIK the EU isn't neighboring any countries without governments or which are a war zone. So in theory, there should be very very few people seeking refugee status in the EU - the odd individuals persecuted for their political beliefs
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by blub 6y ago
The people coming in aren't playing fair: many are not refugees and are transiting safe countries (including EU countries) to apply for asylum in their favorite country. It's understandable that they're desperate, but the EU
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by blub 6y ago
The critical point is that people are traversing several countries or seas to apply for asylum in the EU. This is obviously not following the spirit of the applicable laws which were designed for avoiding humanitarian tragedies in neighbori
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by blub 6y ago
Maybe I missed something because I read with JS turned off, but in the article I read, Frontex is accused of meeting with lobbyists. Certainly fishy and morally dubious, but hardly unusual for the EU or for Germany for that matter. What law
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by blub 6y ago
The EU has a quite reasonable (and rather lax) immigration policy, assuming that people come to the EU legally or move between EU countries. People that get smuggled across the Mediterranean on a dinghy are a very special case and bear the
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by blub 6y ago
I think I understand, if I may phrase it like this: your life before had a balance between masculine and feminine and now you feel that it is skewing heavily toward feminine.
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by blub 6y ago
Oh, there's definitely something going on, but I'm not sure that the factions can be split so easily into left-wing and right-wing, even if the political orientation correlates. Instead I would say that there's some hot butto
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by blub 6y ago
Would you mind detailing the "diminished empathy"? Is this related to the daughters somehow and would things have been different if they were boys?
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by blub 6y ago
I find attempts of forbidding discussions on certain topics because they are sensitive to specific classes of people offensive and dangerous to free thought and open discourse, two of the pillars of democracy. Furthermore, I reject the clai

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